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3. This same mode of production has driven a process of scientific and technological development that has made at least one fourth and maybe half of the population of the earth superfluous from the standpoint of wealth production, a massive “economically expendable” population concentrated especially in the global south, but found in pockets everywhere. We can feed 8 billion, but we can only employ 4-6 billion in profitable forms of production, a number that will likely continue to decrease sharply.

4. The process of development has also upset the homeostatic regulation of the earth's climate, unleashing a spiral of climate change that will increasingly drive this economically expendable population into precarious migrations of immense scale, seeking secure access to the means of existence.