It’s certainly the more confusing of symbols in this episode. The themes surrounding a surrogate mother who can’t have kids being turned into a tree that bears fruit shouldn’t be lost on anyone. “The future of the world depends on how we treat our soil.”Īnd on this solution, both Kawamura and Monbiot agree: Much more knowledge is needed about the soil if we are to feed the expected 8 billion people on the planet by the end of this year.If you’re looking for themes, this show has them in droves. Kawamura is a former California Secretary of Food and Agriculture he’s also is founder of Solutions from the Land, which strives to find innovative and entrepreneurial solutions to global problems such as climate change and enriching the soil.įarmers are making “enormous changes” in how they grow food, Kawamura said, particularly in generating more microbial activity in the soil, the action that Monbiot rhapsodizes about in Chapter 1. Some experts say farmers are making more progress in adopting climate-friendly practices than they get credit for.Ī.G. Monbiot also advocates planting more diverse assortments of crops because that will support more diverse insect and soil life. Good luck trying to persuade Americans who can’t agree on anything to eat more veggies. Doing so will cut your personal greenhouse responsibility by 60%. So what do about this, given how accustomed we all have become to eating regularly? He quotes a United Nations report that says the world’s crops have lost 75% of their genetic diversity since 1900. Our crop-growing systems are becoming less resilient, the author says, and are increasingly vulnerable to external shocks.
The leading cause of river pollution in the United Kingdom is farming, particularly of livestock. In Central America, tropical Africa and South East Asia, 70% of arable land is suffering from severe erosion. The biggest water user in the world? Agriculture.
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Kelly convicted on many counts, acquitted of trial fixing In Chapter 2, however, the book turns into a powerful case against industrial farming with cows, pigs and chickens as chief villains but indictments also handed down to practitioners of commercial agriculture, with their fertilized fields swiftly degrading the soil. “The soil might be the most complex of all living systems,” Monbiot writes. He finds a handful of healthy earth so fascinating in the variety of life it harbors that the reader starts thinking the book is a love story – a scientist/farmer and his beloved earth. Monbiot’s book starts as a hymn to the soil. One million plant and animal species are on the verge of extinction. Raising a pound of beef releases 113 times more greenhouse gases than raising a pound of peas. But author George Monbiot makes a compelling case that it often is.Ĭonsider these statistics cited in the book:
“Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet,” by George Monbiot (Penguin Random House)Ĭruising 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.
This image released by Penguin Books shows "Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet" by George Monbiot.
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