How to feed the world without destroying it | podcast

George Monbiot on the growing global food crisis and the degradation of our soils. Can the solution be found in the lab?When farming is degrading our soils and people are still going hungry, is it time to change how we get our food?"Ninety-nine percent of our calories come from soil. Everything we are, everything we have built, everything in our lives comes from the soil. Without it, we're finished," says the author and environmentalist George Monbiot. "And yet, we treat it with extreme disrespect and disregard." Continue reading...