Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About ItForty years after her mother's work changed the way we eat, Anna Lappé's Diet for a Hot Planet changed the way we think about food production and global warming. Fifty years ago, Frances Moore Lappé'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 Lappé, controversially picked up the conversation with Diet for a Hot Planet, examining another hidden cost of our food choices: the climate crisis. Lappé 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, Lappé reminds us that food, and our perilously large food system, is still a powerful access point for solutions to the climate crisis. |
Contents
The Shape of Things to Come | 42 |
Blinded by the Bite | 59 |
Playing with Our Food | 85 |
Capitalizing on Climate Change | 115 |
Five Ingredients of Climate Friendly Farming | 129 |
Answering the Critics | 151 |
The Hunger Scare | 165 |
The Biotech Ballyhoo | 174 |
Seven Principles of a ClimateFriendly Diet | 201 |
Beyond the Fork | 230 |
Conclusion | 249 |
Notes | 255 |
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