Scarcity is 100% man made!  I stand by that comment a million percent!  We throw away enough to clothe and feed this planet 10 times over.  We have more empty homes than homeless people, by like 2 times or something like that.  

Problems = Profits.  The more problems, the more charities there are.  The more problems, the more we can spend on solutions.   Solutions which are only band-aid solutions...like throwing money at poverty instead of giving people Land, and seeds...basically giving people a fish instead of teaching them to fish. 

We could use clean, abundant energy (solar, wind, geothermal, tide, hemp), but instead we use oil.   

Oooh the list goes on and on, how we do have abundance, and how scarcity is man made, to line the pockets of the already super rich.