To fully understand this story, more information is required. A charitable interpretation of the facts will excuse the current situation and looming catastrophe to unanticipated side-effects--or "collateral damage"--of the worst aspects of globalization. Rather than launch a blame-storm, let us begin by acknowledging the scope of the crisis, and finding speedy and effective solutions. Everyone deserves adequate food, clean water, air safe to breathe, and untainted land for raising traditional foods. To deny anyone those fundamental rights is to forfeit our humanity. To deprive anyone of these basics in order to reap a corporate PROFIT is unconscionable. Yet that is the result of the "global economy" we have created. The rich nations have largely gained their wealth by profiting from the poverty of others--by stealing from the poor through legal structures designed by political collaborators to mutual advantage. Whether through exploitation of natural or human resources, or by tying economic aid to rapacious corporate monopolies, the wealthy must not be allowed to dodge responsibility. Practices including requiring impoverished farmers annually to buy hybrid and copyrighted seed stock, fertilizers, and genetically modified foods; privatizing water supplies and selling clean water to impoverished villagers; extracting oil and mineral resources without environmental protection; slave labor; forced prostitution to pander to the super-wealthy sex tourist market; local policies that pit neighbor against neighbor in perpetual turmoil so that nobody notices the corporate/government exploitation going on behind the cover of 'tribal warfare'. Even the apparently fair import of food to provide year-round supplies of seasonal items increases poverty and starvation in the source nations, as food crops for the local farmers give way to commodity crops that bring international cash to landowners, and a false sense of food security to the importing countries. Intended or unintended, the consequences are insupportable, and those who have profited from these policies and collusions must accept responsibility and solve the problem now.