Many experts warn that if demographic growth continues at its current rate, our exhausted planet will soon be unable to feed us. Yet others—equally expert—insist that the wealthy world already produces enough food for 12 billion people. If you're curious to explore such vistas from angles less traveled, Giulio Albanese guides you deftly through this slim, lucid essay. A Comboni missionary, founder of the Misna news agency, writer, and journalist with deep knowledge of Africa, Albanese unmasks the dynamics that all of us should understand far better: the machinery of information and disinformation, money, hunger, religious fundamentalism, migration, global interdependence, and human and Christian responsibility. He opens our eyes to what we cannot see, and shows us how to become agents of change in our own daily lives. Because we will not advance far if we remain fixed on our own small plots of land.
C. T., 2009