The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse.
Key Concepts
* Food scarcity and the resulting higher food prices are pushing poor countries into chaos. * Such "failed states" can export disease, terrorism, illicit drugs, weapons and refugees. * Water shortages, soil losses and rising temperatures from global warming are placing severe limits on food production. * Without massive and rapid intervention to address these three environmental factors, the author argues, a series of government collapses could threaten the world order.
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]