One of the reasons that I care so much about permaculture and other facets of developing local organic food systems is that I believe the current food system will inevitably collapse. When it does, I don't want to see people starving to death. I want to live in a resilient community that has the ability to feed itself and maintain some semblance of rational and peaceful behavior because it has used the human skills of foresight to develop the ability to care for itself. 

It's fun and safe to do a little project going 30-days without packaged food. Grocery stores are stocked. It's actually quite easy at this point in history.  We are living in bacchanalian times, but we are also destroying the very systems upon which our food production depends. We are destroying bee and other pollinator populations. We are killing our soil with poisons and just by letting it blow away. We are changing the climate and doing a miserable job at managing our water resources. Our out-dated food production, packaging and transport systems are entirely reliant on oil. And the food that comes out of this toxic system is killing us through the toxicity-diabetes-obesity-malnutrition epidemic. 

We are crazy if we let this system go on, and even if we do let it go on, it will self-destruct. Thus I ask you, do we act like rational adults with our miraculous powers of foresight and transform the system while we still can, or do we continue to march towards the collapse?