And there are a loooooooooottta folks in the first world who would be (and are) happy to kill a lotta poor folks to make sure that they (the rich, who feel "normal", not rich) stay more or less where they are (top o' the heap.)

I think Marx banged on about this.

Not so depressing if one is "somewhere in the middle" of the richer classes.  Pretty depressing--viscerally, I mean--if one is in the group of "not first world".

but yeah, I think you're right, unless the weather wipes out major major crop systems--don't they say we're all four meals (or is it eight?) from revolution?

Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.