Winner of the 2022 Orwell Prize for Journalism A Sunday Times
(London) Bestseller Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Writing on
Conservation
"George Monbiot is one of the most fearless and important voices in the
global climate movement today." --Greta Thunberg
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For the first time in millennia, 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 criticize urban sprawl,
but farming sprawls across thirty times as much land. We have plowed,
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 and the price of food is rising faster than
ever.
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
revolutionizing our understanding of fertility; through breeders of
perennial grains, liberating the land from plows 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.
