We're doomed, I tell you...

You'd think that being shacked up with a climate change obsessive, spending your working life researching evil corporate behaviour, being politically engaged with the fate of Palestine and playing mother to a bulimic three-legged cat would induce a level of hopelessness about the state of the world that couldn't get any lower.
You'd be wrong.
In one of my normally mind-numbing days being pimped out to do research for Supposed Ethical Corp, yesterday I got sent off to look up stats on food security. It took only a couple of hours of reading reports like Chatham House's 'UK Food Supply: Storm Clouds On The Horizon' and the Cabinet Office's 'Food: an analysis of the issues' to convince me that not only are we doomed on this front (as well as the ice caps melting, blah blah) but that as a species we bloody well deserve to be. Global grain stores halved in thirty years - because it costs too much to stash. Scary amounts of agricultural land worldwide irreversibly degraded. Chinese per capita meat consumption increased by two-and-a-half-times in twenty years. And official proposals to address the problem seem to include joys such as another shot at persuading us all that GM food is a great idea, really.
Oh boy, we are so fucked.