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Regenesis

Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

August 2, 2022 | Trade paperback
ISBN: 9780735240391
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* GEORGE MONBIOT IS THE WINNER OF THE 2022 ORWELL PRIZE FOR JOURNALISM *
* SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES CROPPER WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING ON CONSERVATION*

What if there were a way to stop climate change and end global hunger at the same time?


The way we feed ourselves is destroying the planet, and a collection of crises have brought the global food supply to its breaking point. But it doesn't have to be this way. With technology that already exists, we could sustainably provide everyone on the planet with a healthy diet. By cultivating hydrogen-eating bacteria, deep-rooted plants, and much richer communities of insects--coupled with existing technology to reduce our dependence on meat--we can dramatically reduce our carbon footprint, solve world hunger, and halt the sixth extinction at the same time.

George Monbiot is an internationally renowned climate activist, widely known for bringing bold, creative thinking to the climate and ecological crises facing our planet. Now, he turns his attention to the global food system to offer a reimagining of the way we feed ourselves on a scale to fit the urgency of the problems we face.

About this Author

GEORGE MONBIOT is one of the world's most influential radical thinkers. Celebrated for both their originality and the depth of their research, his Guardian columns are syndicated all over the world. Monbiot is the author of the bestselling books Captive State, The Age of Consent, Bring on the Apocalypse, and Heat, as well as the investigative travel books Poisoned Arrows, Amazon Watershed, and No Man's Land. Among the many prizes he has won is the UN Global 500 award for outstanding environmental achievement, presented to him by Nelson Mandela. He recently helped to found Rewilding Britain, which seeks to redefine people's relationship to the living world.

ISBN: 9780735240391
Format: Trade paperback
Pages: 352
Publisher: Penguin Canada
Published: 2022-08-02

Reviews

* GEORGE MONBIOT IS THE WINNER OF THE 2022 ORWELL PRIZE FOR JOURNALISM *
* SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES CROPPER WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING ON CONSERVATION*

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New Scientist's "15 of the best science non-fiction books to savour on your holiday"
Amazon's "Best science books of 2022"

Praise for Regenesis:


"George Monbiot is one of the most fearless and important voices in the global climate movement today."
--Greta Thunberg
 
"Wonderful . . . Monbiot shatters the shibboleths of farming and shows that the thin layer on which all terrestrial ecosystems stand is alive with organisms as diverse, fascinating, and mysterious as any found above ground."
--David Suzuki
 
"How can we ensure that everyone is fed without destroying the biosphere? Regenesis is a lively and deeply researched enquiry that confronts our dilemmas head on. There are no easy answers, but Monbiot provides a brilliant guide to asking the right questions. Transformation is urgently needed and this book shows how it is possible."
--Merlin Sheldrake, author of Entangled Life
 
"This is an important book and a gripping read. It will enflame vested interests on all sides. Because Monbiot has that most aggravating of gifts--the ability lucidly to point out things that people desperately do not want to be true."
--Henry Dimbleby
 
"This book calls for nothing less than a revolution in the future of food--one that will literally transform the face of the Earth, to make food affordable for all while restoring the living world. Regenesis weaves the poetry of soil into the politics of farming to shake the ground on which we all grow. This is Monbiot's masterpiece: an urgent and exhilarating journey into remaking what and how we eat."
--Kate Raworth
 
"A brilliant, mesmerizing, vital book. Beneath each square meter of soil live thousands of species, and each chapter of George Monbiot's eye-opening exploration of that soil and its potential is similarly, dynamically rich--delivering a whole new way of thinking about our agriculture and our diets, our climate and our future."
--David Wallace-Wells
 
"People from all walks of life should read this remarkable book. It is in my view one of the two or three most important books to appear this century."
--Prof. Sir David King, former Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government
 
"Regenesis speaks to us like a poem that begins with a phantasmagoria of that which lies under the soil. . . .  [It] offers a magnificent political economy of global food production and concludes with a hopeful vision of a techno-ethical equilibrium between Humanity and Nature. It must be read."
--Yanis Varoufakis
 
"Regenesis is a world-making, world-changing book; at once visionary and rigorous and practicable. It rings and sings throughout with Monbiot's extraordinary combination of passion, generosity, and justice. It is braced by his unshakeable commitment to bettering the planet for all its inhabitants, human and other-than-human. It is a thrilling work, more ambitious even than its predecessor, Feral, and it gripped me as I read. Recognizing that "the future is underground", Monbiot shows us that the possibility for a transformed relationship with food, the living world, and each other lies just beneath our feet, right under our noses."
--Robert Macfarlane
 
"A fascinating and ultimately positive book . . . a harmonic vision of how changing our relationship to land use, farming, and the food that we eat could transform our lives."
--Thom Yorke
 
"I never cease to be surprised by the unexpected perspectives Monbiot brings to bear, leading me through problems I never envisaged and solutions I never imagined."
--Brian Eno
 
"Inspiring and compelling . . . a transformative vision of a new food future with the potential to both restore nature and feed the world. Monbiot's blueprint is both wildly ambitious and deeply practical, and might well be our last best hope of stopping the sixth great extinction."
--Caroline Lucas
 
"A genuinely brilliant, inspirational book. . . . Halfway through, I felt like a child who was bursting to share a secret with anyone who would listen. By the time I had finished reading, I felt as if the purest mountain stream had washed through my brain."
--Tim Smit, Founder of the Eden Project
 
"Remarkable . . . I learned something on every page."
--Bill McKibben
 
"Monbiot rolls up his sleeves and pulls on his boots for an uncompromising session of agricultural dragon-slaying and foodie myth-busting. Regenesis is rigorous and restive, but also witty, original, and humane. Let us hope it is read, digested, and acted on by people, politicians and, policy-makers the world over."
--Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
 
"I am so grateful George Monbiot has applied his razor-sharp intellect, bountiful curiosity and love for the land to the complex and fundamental issue of what we eat. This book offers a deep dive into the most essential question of our time--how might we feed ourselves without destroying our planet in the process?"
--Lily Cole
 
"George Monbiot reaches for new ideas that might ignite the collective consciousness in a push to protect, rather than tragically destroy, the biosphere. Read Monbiot and you will meet the cheerful courage and passion of a fellow traveller on this earth who seeks authentic hope."
--ANOHNI
 
"For anyone who cares about where our food comes from and its impact on the planet, Regenesis is essential reading. This deeply researched book lifts the lid on our current methods of food production and all its dirty secrets--but more than that, it provides a blueprint for the future."
--Rosie Boycott
 
"An inspiring vision of the future that is alive and kicking and grounded in the latest scientific discoveries. George Monbiot has combined his gifts as an investigator, interviewer, and witty storyteller to create an exhilarating epic."
--Robert Newman
 
"You may think you are across environmental and climate change issues, but think again. This passionate, extraordinary book opens up a compelling and vital new dimension: food and the way the world farms."
--Will Hutton
 
"With rigour, singular bravery, and an infectious love for the living world, George Monbiot presents the Silent Spring of our time. Regenesis is an astonishing vision of survival and restoration. There is no topic more important for planetary survival than land and food, and there is no writer willing to dispense of bullshit, tell us the truth, and take on powerful forces and perceived wisdom like George Monbiot. A visionary, fearless, essential book."
--Lucy Jones

"[Regenesis] help[s] us explore how our food and environment are intertwined. . . . This book looks at the importance of soil ecology, innovative protein sources, and more solutions that work to solve both our interconnected land conservation and hunger crises."
--Smithsonian Magazine

"A fascinating, informative, eccentric look at the future of farming and food."
--Kirkus Reviews

"Regenesis, a magnificent new overview of how we might live and feed ourselves without destroying ourselves, Monboit begins with the soil--and it is riveting. . . . George Monbiot's ideas to solve the planet's ecological crisis are radical."
--The Times
(UK)

"[Regenesis] explores the destruction, exploitation, and economic senselessness of farming. But there is hope too. Monbiot offers a treasure trove of solutions and a vision for a sustainable, healthy, equitable world."
--New Scientist

"Never hectoring, always highly readable, Regenesis is an intelligent, deeply researched passion piece that ranges from microbiology to social justice by way of apple trees and GM wheat. There is a temptation when writing about enormous topics to oversimplify, to distinguish your own approach by promoting a single definitive solution. Monbiot resists this. He acknowledges, even embraces, the complexity of the crisis we face. . . . That is the greatest strength of this book: Monbiot's beautifully simple explanation of why none of this is simple. . . . [G]lorious. . . . [U]rgent, essential reading. . . . If a book can change hearts and minds about one of the most critical issues of our time, this rational, humane polemic is it."
--The Guardian

"This rigorous, bold, and clear-sighted book makes clear that what matters is the system, and the soil on which it's founded. To conjure the miracle of more food with less farming, we need to rethink what lies beneath our feet."
--Prospect Magazine


"A compelling account of a deeply broken food system and how we might heal it."
--The Irish Times

"[A]mbitious and deeply researched."
--Financial Times

"In the finest tradition of George Orwell's journalism, George Monbiot draws on a vast reserve of knowledge to write with wit, elegance, forensic insight, and sustained and justified anger about the most important, and most neglected, crisis facing humanity. His targets range from organised crime to criminal political indifference and he leaves us in no doubt about what we must do to survive."
--The Orwell Prize for Journalism 2022 judges


"Regenesis, as the book's name suggests, is intended to be hopeful. Its main aim is to explore solutions that might just answer the food system's central dilemma: how to produce more (and better) food for more people using less land."
--Post Magazine
 
"Cruising past farmlands in America--and elsewhere in the world--it's hard to imagine that so much green could be so damaging to the Earth. But author George Monbiot makes a compelling case that it often is."
--Daily Herald

"George Monbiot is challenging common practices and beliefs about farming and food production. . . . [Regenesis] makes an argument against animal farming while making a case for advancing the science of soil technology and bacteria pioneering."
--CBC

"[D]eeply moving. . . . [Monbiot] applies his fierce intellect and rich empathy to answering the question posed. . . can we feed billions of human beings without wiping out the world's wildlife, and without undermining the complex life support systems that we call nature?"
--Ecologist

"Monbiot calls passionately for an end to [the] cycle of destruction. . . . He makes powerful arguments. . . . [and] cares deeply."
--The New York Review

"George Monbiot is. . . an exceptional prose writer. The book is profoundly thrilling. . . . [R]evelatory. . . . [It's] the transformative power of language and ideas that make Regenesis not only a timely book, but also a work of great beauty."
--The Tyee

"Regenesis unflinchingly outlines the damage farming does to the planet."
--Big Issue

"[A] vital new book. . . . [Monbiot] has taken an enormously complex subject, conducted painstaking research, and written a highly readable book."
--Jacobin

"George Monbiot reveals there is one industry destroying the Earth at a faster rate than any other--and that's farming. Regenesis . . . sets out an extremely bleak future for the earth--within his lifetime--if we do not find a different way to feed ourselves instead of by farming livestock."
--Cambridge Independent

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