Severe food shortages, price spikes threaten world population (disturbing image)

Do you ever contemplate what we're doing to ourselves? Or what we allow to be? We're causing hunger, starvation, water shortages and we're destroying the environment. Why?

I thought humans were intelligent. I might have been wrong.

Worldwide food prices have risen sharply and supplies have dropped this year, according to the latest food outlook of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. The agency warned December 17 that the changes represent an "unforeseen and unprecedented" shift in the global food system, threatening billions with hunger and decreased access to food.

Via The Signs.