Tell me, is there balm in Gilead?

Is there a way back from here? Global warming, shrinking polar ice caps, El Nina's return; Iran pushing Nuclear brinkmanship, a war in the Mideast that threatens daily to explode into a protracted and horrific Third World War, and every ill seems to weave together in some Dune-like tapestry of St. John's Revelation. The ghost of Malthus is everywhere we look; disease, starvation, genocide, gigantic crimes against the human spirit that cry for redress and go unanswered. We all want reasons, action, in short, answers, but the man on the hill isn't giving any. And meanwhile, the sheep look up.