Diet for a Hot Planet (eBook)

The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It

Lappe Anna Lappe (Autor)

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2010 | 1. Auflage
352 Seiten
Bloomsbury Publishing (USA) (Verlag)
978-1-60819-130-7 (ISBN)

Infos

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 Lapp'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, Lapp helps readers understand that food can be a powerful starting point for solutions to global environmental problems. A crucial piece of the conversation about climate change, Diet for a Hot Planet makes the disturbing connection between food production and global warming. Anna Lapp is the co-author of Grubb and Hope's Edge (with her mother, Frances Moore Lapp). She is currently host for MSN's Practical Guide to Healthy Living and is co-host 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 bi-monthly column on sustainability for Spirituality and Health and contributes book reviews to the San Francisco Chronicle and the New Scientist. Her Web site is www.takeabite.cc .

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Forty years after her mother's work changed the way we eat, Anna Lappe's Diet for a Hot Planet changed the way we think about food production and global warming.Fifty years ago, Frances Moore Lappe's Diet for a Small Planet sparked a revolution in thinking about the social and environmental impact of what we eat. Ten years ago, her daughter, Anna Lappe, controversially picked up the conversation with Diet for a Hot Planet, examining another hidden cost of our food choices: the climate crisis. Lappe predicted that food system-related greenhouse gas emissions would be catastrophic unless we radically shifted the trends of what we ate and how we produced it. She exposed the political interests with a stake in our food system, and foresaw the spin food companies would use to avoid system-wide reform. She visited the pioneering farmers of a future food system where good could outweigh harm, demonstrating the potential of sustainable farming. She also offered six eternal principles for a climate friendly diet. This measured and intelligent call to action is the perfect companion to the fiftieth anniversary edition of Diet for a Small Planet; like her mother before her, Lappe reminds us that food, and our perilously large food system, is still a powerful access point for solutions to the climate crisis.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.4.2010
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften
• ISBN-10: 1-60819-130-3 / 1608191303
• ISBN-13: 978-1-60819-130-7 / 9781608191307