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Regenesis

Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet

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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.

© George Monbiot 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

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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. Such a vision sounds near impossible, but Monbiot reveals the food pioneers whose extraordinary innovations could bring it within reach. Never shying from controversy, 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)
Regenesis speaks to us like a poem that begins with a phantasmagoria of that which lies under the soil, 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)
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)
As we begin to rethink our relationship with Nature, the unstinting work of George Monbiot becomes ever more valuable. Monbiot has been at the cutting edge of the discussion for decades, and his extraordinary book covers this complex, evolving subject with depth and breadth, sincerity and humour. I never cease to be surprised by the unexpected perspectives he brings to bear, leading me through problems I never envisaged and solutions I never imagined. We are left with the hope that the solutions might triumph, that we might make it through (Brian Eno)
A book offering evidence-based hope is a rare thing in these days of climate and nature emergency - yet that's exactly what George Monbiot has written. Inspiring and compelling, Regenesis sets out 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)
This remarkable book, staring curiously down at the soil beneath our feet, points us convincingly in one of the directions we must travel. I learned something on every page (Bill McKibben)
George Monbiot clears paths towards solutions that lie dormant within us, which, if embraced, could transform our world and our societies into better places. He reaches for new ideas that might ignite the collective consciousness in a push to protect, rather than tragically destroy, the biosphere. Read George Monbiot and you will meet the cheerful courage and passion of a fellow traveller on this earth who seeks authentic hope (ANOHNI)
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It made me think about food and society. Important and inspiring. I will give it to people I love and will try to eat less animal products.

Thought provoking

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As always, this book is well written by giving the reader/listener complex aspects of humanities biggest challenge in digestible and entertaining form. Highly recommend.

The elephant in room

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The problems are alarming and overwhelming. Solutions are in reach, but it seems no one really cares or wants a change: Greedy politicians, corporate money and our own will to move our lazy asses contribute to the daunting extinction of our species and the end of world as we know it. Meanwhile all over Europe protesters are jailed, while the true criminals run free. Georges book gives a deep and frustrating view into what's wrong with agriculture. But at the same time still there's hope. A must read and wake up call.

Frighteningly wonderful book

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The book's description is misleading since less than a quarter of the book discusses regenerative Agriculture. It gives the example of a single high yielding regenerative fruit and vegetable farm. While this farm appears to be a great model, more examples would have been nice. 

The majority of the book discusses the serious problems with current agricultural systems, although some possible solutions, such as the seaweed that may reduce livestock methane emissions by up to 97% are ignored.

A large part of the book is dedicated to the author's favoured solution, a diet consisting largely of genetically modified bacteria grown in vats. The author assumes that since genetically engineered insulin is safe, all genetically engineered bacteria must be safe, although the Showa Denko tryptophan disaster which killed at least 50 people and crippled hundreds disproves this. 

He falsely asserts that bacteria can produce identical proteins to animals - in reality the proteins will usually be incorrectly folded and the patterns of sugars attached to the proteins will be different, greatly increasing the risk of allergic reactions. 

Although the book is supposed to be about how to feed people, the words 'micronutrient' and 'vitamin' are never mentioned and 'minerals' refers only to the minerals we must give to plants to make them grow. The only micronutrient mentioned in passing is vitamin B12. Polyphenols, very important for reducing the risk of cancer, heart disease and other chronic diseases, are never mentioned. 

It's an interesting book but the author's conclusion that we can and should save the world by eating dangerous and likely nutritionally deficient genetically modified foods is simply wrong.



Misleading

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