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his remarkable book , staring curiously down at the soil beneath our feet , points us convincingly in one of the directions we must travel . I learned something on every page .” - Bill McKibben
NEW BOOK RELEASE
Regenesis : Feeding the world without devouring the planet
For the first time since the Neolithic , we have the opportunity to transform not only our food system but our entire relationship to the living world .
Farming is the world ’ s greatest cause of environmental destruction – and the one we are least prepared to talk about . We criticise urban sprawl , butfarming sprawls across thirty times as much land . We have ploughed , fenced and grazed great tracts of the planet , felling forests , killing wildlife , and poisoning rivers and oceans to feed ourselves . Yet millions still go hungry .
Now the food system itself is beginning to falter . But , as George Monbiot shows us in this brilliant , bracingly original new book , we can resolve the biggest of our dilemmas and feed the world without devouring the planet .
Regenesis is a breathtaking vision of a new future for food and for humanity . Drawing on astonishing advances in soil ecology , Monbiot reveals how our changing understanding of the world beneath our feet could allow us to grow more food with less farming .
He meets the people who are unlocking these methods , from the fruit and vegetable grower revolutionising our understanding of fertility ; through breeders of perennial grains , liberating the land from ploughs and poisons ; to the scientists pioneering new ways to grow protein and fat .
Together , they show how the tiniest life forms could help us make peace with the planet , restore its living systems , and replace the age of extinction with an age of regenesis .
George Monbiot
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