Can we eat our way out of Polycrisis?

We are undoubtedly mired in a global polycrisis. Reminders of just how precarious things have become seem to crop up every single day, from climate catastrophes to economic instability to horrific, prolonged armed conflicts. There is a lot of discourse around the "unprecedented" nature of our times, and while this is true in some respects—the sheer scale of our global interconnectivity is indeed novel in human history—there are far more historical precedents to our current maladies than most people realize.