Can You Even Survive a Global Famine?

It is a question of when—not if—large and growing areas of countries become uninhabitable owing to prolonged freshwater shortages, extreme heat, widespread flooding, and frequent, costly storms. Bangladesh may well be the first country with a substantial population to face this problem on a large scale. The amount of land able to support human exis

We are so completely overwhelmed by the pressure of modern living, so preoccupied just with coping, that we often feel incapable of doing anything about any of the problems we see, even in our personal lives. This state is commonly referred to as survival mode.

Can one live on that? And yet, around the world, in 2005, 865 million people (13 percent of the world’s population) did.