Diet for a Hot Planet The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do about It

by Lappe, Anna; McKibben, Bill

• ISBN13: 9781596916593
• ISBN10: 1596916591
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-03-30
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

Summary

Beyond what we already know about "food miles" and eating locally, the global food system is a major contributor to climate change, producing as much as one-third of greenhouse gas emissions. How we farm, what we eat, and how our food gets to the table all have an impact. And our government and the food industry are willfully ignoring the issue rather than addressing it. In Anna Lappe's controversial new book, she predicts that unless we radically shift the trends of what food we're eating and how we're producing it, food system-related greenhouse gas emissions will go up and up and up. She exposes the interests that will resist the change, and the spin food companies will generate to avoid system-wide reform. And she offers a vision of a future in which our food system does more good than harm, with six principles for a climate friendly diet as well as visits to farmers who are demonstrating the potential of sustainable farming. In this measured and intelligent call to action, Lappe helps readers understand that food can be a powerful starting point for solutions to global environmental problems.

Author Biography

Anna Lappé is the coauthor of Grub and Hope’s Edge (with her mother, Frances Moore Lappé). She is currently host of MS N’s Practical Guide to Healthy Living and is cohost for the public television series The Endless Feast. Named one of Time magazine’s “Eco-Who’s Who,” she is a founding principal of the Small Planet Institute. Anna’s writing has been published in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, International Herald Tribune, and Canada’s Globe and Mail. She writes a bimonthly column on sustainability for Spirituality and Health and contributes book reviews to the San Francisco Chronicle and the New Scientist. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
Introduction: Why This Book?	p. xiii
How to Read This Book	p. xxi
Crisis
The Climate Crisis at the End of Our Fork	p. 3
The Shape of Things to Come	p. 42
Spin
Blinded by the Bite	p. 59
Playing with Our Food	p. 85
Capitalizing on Climate Change	p. 115
Hope
Cool Food: Five Ingredients of Climate-Friendly Farming	p. 129
Myth-Informed: Answering the Critics	p. 151
The Hunger Scare	p. 165
The Biotech Ballyhoo	p. 174
Eat the Sky: Seven Principles of a Climate-Friendly Diet	p. 201
Beyond the Fork	p. 230
Conclusion	p. 249
Acknowledgments	p. 253
Notes	p. 255
Selected Bibliography	p. 283
Action & Learning Resources	p. 287
Index	p. 297
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