I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.

It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.

Subsidize... or lend.

Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.

I was recently looking at what they can actually do to reduce consumption of petrol. It would be quite possible to build automobiles out of carbon fibre that would be just as strong, weigh 10 times less and consume 10 times less petrol.

As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status.

The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?