Maybe this is our fate - to retreat behind our own tiny drawbridges as the world becomes less and less trusting, and the food, water, metals and energy grow scarcer and scarcer. In that event, it will be hard for anyone to obtain the things they need, and a general decline in global living standards can be predicted.

If this is the case than Canada is surly blessed as we are one of the few countries in the world that are currently producing far more of nearly everything we need than we consume.

However the majority of the shortages in food that we are currently experiencing can be directly traced to the production of Ethanol. As the corn crop in the US is subsidized and turned into fuel other crops become less profitable and are abandoned in favor of corn. One tank of ethanol uses enough corn to feed a man for an entire year. This is not a real food shortage at this point it is the law of unintended consequences.