Worst-Case Scenarios for Humankind

Planting a vegetable garden is a wonderful thing to do, but why the silly hyperbole?

The “barter system” dates back 6000 years; it’s by far the oldest form of economic transaction. I give you corn and you cut my hair or shoe my horse.

If human civilization devolves to a point in which only those who grow their own food can eat, we are, each one of us, supremely screwed.