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  • Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet
  • By: George Monbiot
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  • Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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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.

©2022 George Monbiot (P)2022 Penguin Audio

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A Damaging and dangerous book

'This is one of the best examples of livestock farming I have ever seen. Keep it up but please know that I can never write or publish this.' This was Mr Monbiot speaking about a neighbouring farmer and undermines all that he writes in Regenesis.
It is small minded and short sighted to broad brush blame farmers when there are a great swathe of farmers working to agroecological principals to improve people's overall health, happiness and well-being from the food that they produce AND doing this in an environmentally beneficial way. Farming has historically been problematic owing to Big Business, the impact of WW2 and the direction of subsidies. It is unfair to blame farmers alone.
I wonder if Mr Monbiot is aware of the beneficial impact of the dung beetle on ecosystems and diversity, water, soil and insect life? If we remove livestock from our systems, the loss of the dung beetle will have catastrophic affects on global diversity. This is just one of the many holes in his argument for ridding the planet of livestock.
It is diversity we should be striving for and I do believe there is a place for many of the things he writes but this includes farming in an agroecological way.
I should love to invite him to the farm here and show him the beneficial impact that livestock, a no dig market garden, heritage wheat, diverse crops, hedgerows and all that we are working on has on both the local enviornment and on the health and happiness of those who consume our products, all of whom are within a 4 mile radius. I wonder if he'd be brave enough to publish his findings? What a shame that this man has a voice and such a dangerous one at such an incredibly critical time. I should also love to invite anyone here to the farm to see the benefits that farming can do and bring.

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Dangerous

Obstinate. Unwilling or unable to accept alternatives to rewilding and veganism. Dangerous to be peddling this solution as the only one even though there are farmers out there regeneratively farming; harmoniously producing food and improving the environment. Has a tremendous amount of important and relevant points but loses his way with the solution which was a real shame

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Excellent

My only complaint is a persistently expressed blindspot on the issue of monetary cost. This is an issue that should be seen as ideological and arbitrary rather than natural and / or unavoidable; the issues we are facung on the climate and ecological fronts cannot be solved without the abolition - partial, at the very least - of the global economic system that generates these cost roadblocks in the first place.

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The big book of lie’s

It’s sad that Monbiot has to lie about farming to make his point.

Would love to know…..Who is this famous Welsh sheep farmer that been dumping slurry?

What the location of the field the contractors have shagged.

If livestock farming is so bad why are Monbiot friends at Knepp estate Isabella Tree going back into livestock farming?

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Fascinating, uplifting

Informative and accessible, underpinned by science and data. This describes the huge challenges of feeding the world without killing the planet but also suggests solutions. The author narrates and does a great job.

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Eye opening

I am a dairy farmer, I have heard much of what George has said before but not condensed and well presented. Ian rethinking what we farm

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Essential reading

Incredibly thoughtful and well researched examination of one of the most important issues we face as a society. Highly recommended!

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knew the world was broken but this highlights it

loved it I can't process normal read literature after a brain injury but this on audible was great docs super impressed I can recall facts from the book loved the book thanks audible

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Compelling, well researched

And of course polemic and provocative. Never seen the soil food web so well explained - an essential starting point in Monbiot’s critique of our food growing system. We may never be ready to adopt some of his solutions but no one could read this without feeling sure that change is essential.

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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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