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We Are Eating the Earth

The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate
Book • 2025
In this book, Michael Grunwald delves into the critical issue of the global food system's impact on the environment and climate.

He highlights how humanity's agricultural practices have led to significant land clearance, deforestation, and carbon emissions.

Grunwald argues that despite the challenges, there are potential solutions such as adopting industrial farming methods, reducing food waste, and shifting towards more sustainable diets.

The book chronicles the stories of scientists and entrepreneurs working on innovative solutions like genetically edited cattle and plant-based meat substitutes.

It also emphasizes the need for better policy, technology, and behavioral changes to address the looming crisis of feeding a growing population without exacerbating climate change and biodiversity loss.

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Mentioned in 3 episodes

Appears in the introduction as an example of the lack of attention given to agriculture in the larger climate world.
87 snips
Reducing the climate impacts of food and farming
Recommended by Robinson Meyer as a new book about food's role in the climate problem.
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If You Care About Food, You Have to Care About Land
Mentioned by Shayle Kann as the author of an upcoming book on food systems and climate change.
43 snips
The climate-ag grab bag
Mentioned by Chris Nelder as the result of his extensive research into the approaches that have been tried to produce bioenergy.
[Episode #253] – Bioenergy Illusions
About agriculture lagging decades behind energy in decarbonization.
The ethanol disaster unveiled a bigger problem
Mentioned by Jack Thompson as the basis for a podcast episode discussing food systems and climate change.
Is this the future of food? (with Michael Grunwald)

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