We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate

🌍 The Climate Crisis on Your Plate – By Michael Grunwald

From the bestselling author of The New New Deal, this eye-opening investigation explores one of the biggest threats to our planet: our broken food system.

We’ve already cleared an area the size of Asia and Europe combined to grow food—accounting for nearly one-third of global carbon emissions. By 2050, we’ll need to feed almost 10 billion people, but if we continue to destroy forests and expand farmland, we risk pushing the planet into irreversible climate chaos.

In this fast-paced and sometimes shocking narrative, Grunwald exposes how well-meaning but flawed solutions are worsening the problem—and how visionary scientists and entrepreneurs are creating real fixes: from gene-edited cattle embryos to eco-friendly pesticides based on COVID-era tech.

At the heart of the story is Tim Searchinger, a tireless expert battling bad science, politics, and powerful agricultural lobbies to promote smarter, sustainable ways to feed the world without destroying it.

This is a powerful call to action—a blend of investigative journalism and inspiring innovation—that shows how we can change course and protect our future, one acre at a time.