Diet for a Hot Planet

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

Anna Lappé

• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
• Year: 2010
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781608191307
• Subtopic: Environmental Conservation & Protection
• Index: Biological Sciences

Forty years after her mother's work changed the way we eat, Anna Lappé'sDiet 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.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Foreword by Bill McKibben
• Introduction: Why This Book?
• How to Read This Book
• I. CRISIS
• 1. The Climate Crisis at the End of Our Fork
• 2. The Shape of Things to Come
• II. SPIN
• 3. Blinded by the Bite
• 4. Playing with Our Food
• 5. Capitalizing on Climate Change
• III. HOPE
• 6. Cool Food: Five Ingredients of Climate-Friendly Farming
• 7. Myth-Informed: Answering the Critics
• 8. The Hunger Scare
• 9. The Biotech Ballyhoo
• IV. ACTION
• 10. Eat the Sky: Seven Principles of a Climate-Friendly Diet
• 11. Beyond the Fork
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Selected Bibliography
• Action & Learning Resources
• Copyright Page