This not-so-positive prediction will focus on South American geopolitics as it relates to climate change between the years 2040 and 2050. As you read on, you’ll see a South America that’s struggling to combat drought while trying to prevent both resource shortages and a widespread return to the military dictatorships of the 1960s to 90s.

There’s an old saying I made up that goes something like this: You can’t have a food shortage without having too many mouths to feed.

A part of you instinctually feels that adage is true. But that’s not the whole picture. In fact, it’s not an excessive number of people that causes food shortages, but the nature of their appetites. In other words, it’s the diets of future generations that will lead to a future where food shortages will become commonplace.

If you’ve come this far, then you’ve read about the fall of dirty energy and the end of cheap oil.

 Just like how solar doesn’t generate energy 24/7, it also doesn’t work too well in some places in the world compared to others. Trust me, coming from Canada, there are some months where you barely see the sun. It’s likely much worse in the Nordic countries and Russia—maybe that also explains the sizeable amount of heavy metal and vodka enjoyed up there.

We’ve spoken about the fall of dirty energy. We’ve spoken about the end of oil. And we just spoke about the rise of electric vehicles.

You can’t talk about energy without talking about oil (petroleum). It’s the lifeblood of our modern society. In fact, the world as we know it today couldn’t exist without it. Since the early 1900s, our food, our consumer products, our cars, and everything in between, has either been powered by or entirely produced using oil.

Yet as much as this resource has been a godsend for human development, its costs to our environment are now beginning to threaten our collective future. On top of that, it’s also a resource that’s beginning to run out.

Some people think property tax reform is an unbelievably boring subject. Usually, you would be right. But not today. The innovation in property taxes we’ll be covering below will melt your pants off. So get ready, because you’re about to dive right into it!

Most people are going to hate this third installment of our future of food series. And the worst part is the reasons behind this hatorade will be emotional more so than informed. But alas, everything below needs to be said, and you are more than welcome to flame on in the comments section below.

In many ways, today’s farms are light years more advanced and complex than those from yesteryears. In the same way, today’s farmers are light years more savvy and knowledgeable than those of yesteryears.

We’re on the cusp of a gastronomical revolution. Climate change, a population spurt, an excess demand for meat, and new sciences and technologies around making and growing food will spell the end of the simple food diets we enjoy today. In fact, the next few decades will see us enter a brave new world of foods, one that will see our diets become more complex, nutrient-packed, and flavor rich—and, yes, maybe just a smidge creepy.

‘How creepy?’ you ask.