Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet

In conversation with Samantha Knights.

From the bestselling author of Feral, George Monbiot gives a revolutionary vision of a future for food and for humanity. He argues that farming is the world’s greatest cause of environmental destruction and one which we are least prepared to talk about. We criticise urban sprawl but farming sprawls across thirty times as much land. We have ploughed, grazed great tracts of land, felling trees, killing wildlife and poisoning rivers and oceans to feed ourselves. Now the system is faltering. Monbiot urges how to resolve this dilemma.