Is this the perfect storm of worldwide panic and desperation created by the financial, food and fuel crisis not to mention climate change or is it media hysteria or is it just a hiccup in the development of the world? When people ask what do we need more food or fuel, you have to shake your head, because I know that humanity once lived without fuel but they never lived without food. And when you tie food and fuel into a deranged arrangement like ethanol that President Bush pushed as our way to not be dependent on Mid East oil, but was in reality another hapless decision that nobody really researched and could be the kernel that broke the camel’s back, this, along with the drought in Australia that was a major producer of wheat and rice, and China and India starting to eat more meat which depends on grain to raise; what you get is Haitians rioting after having to eat mud pie, in Asia rice so scarce they’re dolling it out by the grain, not by the cup. A shortage of rice so intense that American stores Cosco and WalMart are rationing rice to their customers. Other shortages include the salmon run on the west coast from California to Oregon so bad the fishing season has been canceled and fishing stock all over the world diminishing. Prices of food are up 40%, over 6 million people do not have enough to eat, more food riots in Egypt, Cameroon and Malaysia and 800,000 Palestinians not able to receive food from the United Nations because of a fuel shortage that hasn’t allowed them to deliver it. So what is it, a crisis, media mania or a hiccup? Surely it is a crisis, but is it a world ending one? The media mania is a reality but probably not a bad thing because it is creating action as well as fear. The way the world deals with it, and if we aren’t too late, will answer if this is a hiccup or world-ending crisis. If events that were created in the past have created a domino affect that is speeding into the events of the future that we cannot stop, it might create the falling of a house of cards scenario. Is it to late? Maybe not, maybe so. If it is, it is not because we don’t have the skill, will and intelligence to stop it, it is because what we have is the perfect storm after starting it, it cannot be stopped…