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We are eating the Earth : the race to fix our food system and save our climate

Grunwald, Michael, 1970- author

2025

Overview

Humanity has cleared a land mass the size of Asia plus Europe to grow food, and our food system generates a third of our carbon emissions. By 2050, we're going to need a lot more calories to fill nearly 10 billion bellies, but we can't feed the world without frying it if we keep tearing down an acre of rainforest every six seconds. We are eating the earth, and the greatest challenge facing our species will be to slow our relentless expansion of farmland into nature. Even if we quit fossil fuels, we'll keep hurtling towards climate chaos if we don't solve our food and land problems. In this rollicking, shocking narrative, Grunwald shows how the world, after decades of ignoring the climate problem at the centre of our plates, has pivoted to making it worse, embracing solutions that sound sustainable but could make it even harder to grow more food with less land.

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Subject: Food security Climatic factors. / Food supply. / Sustainable agriculture. / Farming and Country Life.
• ISBN: 9781982160074

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HD9000.5 .G78 2025	1	BOOK	GENERAL