The problem with every single article on the supposed food crisis, whether it's the result of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, global climate change, or Aunt Sally's hex, is that the raw data tells a very different story. We actually produce enough food to feed more than twice the current population of the world. The trouble is, we waste half of it. In the West we buy more than we need and throw things out before their time, thus squandering 50% of all food produced. In less developed parts of the world, food rots and spoils on its way to market.

Starvation is rarely caused by natural disaster, but is regularly caused by grotesque misgovernment (Africa, parts of South America) and by war - both of which are not anything other than human-created miseries. Meanwhile, China has stockpiled half the world's annual supply of grain in order not to go hungry so that when it invades Taiwan, Western sanctions will have zero impact. If representative democracy was a less awful system of government - one in which ignorant foolish people vote for lying incompetents - we would already have plenty of reserves for difficult times. Instead, we have little or nothing because ordinary people won't vote for policies that are sensible and forward-looking. Ordinary people vote for short-term free-ice cream because they have no capacity for serious thought.

So there's no food crisis, but there really is a crisis regarding how we govern ourselves. And sadly, that's not amenable to being fixed.