The non-urban world has also been fundamentally transformed, as logging, mineral extraction, and oil exploration and production have brought virtually every hectare of global space under the economic gaze of capital exploitation. In search of ever greater food supplies, fisheries throughout the world have been driven to collapse and forests pushed back for agricultural development, especially when monoculture drives out smaller scale diversified agriculture. The agricultural equivalent to global financial interdependence lies in the possibility of irreversible environmental shifts such as drought in China, which under current financial arrangements could cause market forces to eliminate from global demand those who cannot afford grain. Structural inequalities coupled with civil unrest (another kind of inequality) already produce widespread hunger, malnourishment and famine. An environmental disaster in a large population, most obviously China or India, could have devastating effects within the world system. This, of course, is the great fear environmentalists have for dependence on mono-cropping, species loss, and water management 5 .