Regenesis
Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet
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George Monbiot
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George Monbiot
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People talk a lot about the problems with intensive farming. But the problem isn't the adjective. It's the noun. Around the world, farming has been wiping out vast habitats, depleting freshwater, polluting oceans and accelerating global heating, while leaving millions undernourished and unfed. Increasingly, there are signs that the system itself is beginning to flicker. But, as George Monbiot shows us in this brilliant, bracingly original new book, there is another way.
Regenesis is an exhilarating journey into a new possible future for food, people and the planet. Drawing on the revelatory, rapidly advancing science of soil ecology, Monbiot shows how the hidden biological universe beneath our feet could transform what we eat and how we grow it. He travels to meet the people who are unlocking these methods, from the fruit and vegetable growers who cultivate pests as well as potatoes; through producers of perennial grains who are liberating their fields from ploughs; to the scientists pioneering new forms of protein and fat that can be cooked into rich golden pancakes and much, much more. We start to see how the tiniest life forms in the soil might help us save the living world, allowing us to produce abundant, cheap, healthy food while returning vast swathes of land to the wild.
Here, for the first time, is a profoundly hopeful, appetising and exciting vision of food: of revolutionary cultivation and cuisine that could nourish us all and restore our world of wonders.
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- GW
- 09-12-22
I wish I could shake everyone to wake up
This book is an eloquent way to slap someone around the head about farming, veganism and climate change. Please listen, share or trap loved ones in a car on a long road trip and listen to it...
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- Anonymous User
- 19-07-22
A Must Read/Listen for all
Thought provoking, well researched and with some interesting practical solutions for the problems of food security and a thriving biosphere.
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- Isuru Wijewardene
- 22-09-22
Brilliant! Urgent call to action for humanity
It's written and performed exceptionally well by the author himself. It's an urgent call to action for humanity to save the soil biome, and to adopt practices and cutting edge technology to mitigate and reverse the already done damages to the soil ecology (in the name of better farming) and for the climate at large.
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- Richard T Edwards
- 03-12-22
Gripping and inspirational
Anyone who eats anything and requires the planet to live should read this book, and it is even entertaining
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- Lauren Durrell
- 21-12-22
a must read
surprisingly easy listening given the amount of scientific and complex systems content. it's wonderful to see it all bought together in such a compelling way
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- CTB
- 24-07-23
Important listening
Been a fan since I found Feral. Been a vegan before and currently eat meat again but always good to be reminded to reign it in. Love Monbiots narration wish he would do more. All the stories from the farmers are Inspiring. Got the veg patch back on this summer
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- Neil Cruickshank
- 19-03-23
Thought provoking and startlingly enlightening
This book is at the same time brutally depressing and hugely hopeful.
Anyone who disagrees with Monbiots reasoning and presentation of the state of our food production is either naive, unwilling to face truth or has a vested interest in the status quo. This book is for the intelligent, aware person interested in the state we find ourselves in and open to the changes we can make.
This isn’t an easy read but should be read!
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- Mr. C. Wickens
- 02-12-23
George gives hope for humanity
Only by understanding the situation we're in can we hope to fix it. This book is an essential and pragmatic tool for overhauling our food system without alienating the masses with talk of eating only insects and legumes.
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- purlieu
- 13-04-23
Eye opening
Mind expanding. This book destroys so many myths about our nostalgic view of farming. Not sure we can totally blame poetry as he suggests at one point. Poetry can do so much to put us in touch with nature too. But his point about how we’re brain washed from an early age to accept farm yards and farming animals as the norm with no mention of intensive factory farming, pollution and destruction of habitat rang true. Also the way we happily subsidise farms instead of low farm workers wages or instead of giving subsidies at the food purchasing point was also one of the many interesting points he makes even if there are some contradictions in his arguments in places.
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- Mr David Gaytten
- 29-06-22
A must read
Outstanding explanation of how farming is destroying our planet. Suggests how to resolve it too
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