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Regenesis
- Author
- George Monbiot
- Narrator
- George Monbiot
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 26 May 2022
- Run Time
- 9 hours 29 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Conservation of the environment, Food security and supply, Cultural studies: food and society, Agriculture, agribusiness and food production industries, Applied ecology, Environmental economics, Political activism / Political engagement, Sustainable agriculture
- Rating
- 4.5 (4 reviews)
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People talk a lot about the problems with intensive farming. But the problem isn't the adjective. It's the noun. Around the world, farming has been wiping out vast habitats, depleting freshwater, polluting oceans, and accelerating global heating, while leaving millions undernourished and unfed. Increasingly, there are signs that the system itself is beginning to flicker. But, as George Monbiot shows us in this brilliant, bracingly original new book, there is another way.
Regenesis is an exhilarating journey into a new possible future for food, people and the planet. Drawing on the revelatory, rapidly advancing science of soil ecology, Monbiot shows how the hidden biological universe beneath our feet could transform what we eat and how we grow it. He travels to meet the people who are unlocking these methods, from the fruit and vegetable growers who cultivate pests as well as potatoes; through producers of perennial grains who are liberating their fields from ploughs; to the scientists pioneering new forms of protein and fat that can be cooked into rich golden pancakes and much, much more. We start to see how the tiniest life forms in the soil might help us save the living world, allowing us to produce abundant, cheap, healthy food while returning vast swathes of land to the wild.
Here, for the first time, is a profoundly hopeful, appetising and exciting vision of food: of revolutionary cultivation and cuisine that could nourish us all and restore our world of wonders.
© George Monbiot 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
Critics Review
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This book calls for nothing less than a revolution in the future of food - one that will literally transform the face of the Earth, to make food affordable for all while restoring the living world. Such a vision sounds near impossible, but Monbiot reveals the food pioneers whose extraordinary innovations could bring it within reach. Never shying from controversy, Regenesis weaves the poetry of soil into the politics of farming to shake the ground on which we all grow. This is Monbiot's masterpiece: an urgent and exhilarating journey into remaking what and how we eat
Kate Raworth
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Regenesis speaks to us like a poem that begins with a phantasmagoria of that which lies under the soil, offers a magnificent political economy of global food production and concludes with a hopeful vision of a techno-ethical equilibrium between Humanity and Nature. It must be read
Yanis Varoufakis
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People from all walks of life should read this remarkable book. It is in my view one of the two or three most important books to appear this century
Prof. Sir David King, former Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government
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As we begin to rethink our relationship with Nature, the unstinting work of George Monbiot becomes ever more valuable. Monbiot has been at the cutting edge of the discussion for decades, and his extraordinary book covers this complex, evolving subject with depth and breadth, sincerity and humour. I never cease to be surprised by the unexpected perspectives he brings to bear, leading me through problems I never envisaged and solutions I never imagined. We are left with the hope that the solutions might triumph, that we might make it through
Brian Eno
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A book offering evidence-based hope is a rare thing in these days of climate and nature emergency - yet that's exactly what George Monbiot has written. Inspiring and compelling, Regenesis sets out a transformative vision of a new food future with the potential to both restore nature and feed the world. Monbiot's blueprint is both wildly ambitious and deeply practical, and might well be our last best hope of stopping the sixth great extinction
Caroline Lucas
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This remarkable book, staring curiously down at the soil beneath our feet, points us convincingly in one of the directions we must travel. I learned something on every page
Bill McKibben
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George Monbiot clears paths towards solutions that lie dormant within us, which, if embraced, could transform our world and our societies into better places. He reaches for new ideas that might ignite the collective consciousness in a push to protect, rather than tragically destroy, the biosphere. Read George Monbiot and you will meet the cheerful courage and passion of a fellow traveller on this earth who seeks authentic hope
ANOHNI
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For anyone who cares about where our food comes from and its impact on the planet Regenesis is essential reading. This deeply researched book lifts the lid on our current methods of food production and all its dirty secrets: but more than that it provides a blueprint for the future. Monbiot pursues the key question: how can we have healthy food that's cheap enough for everyone to eat? His answers provide critical pathways towards a way to feed the planet
Rosie Boycott
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Forget Elon Musk's dry-as-dust retro sci-fi fantasies, George Monbiot gives us an inspiring vision of the future that is alive and kicking and grounded in the latest scientific discoveries. George Monbiot has combined his gifts as an investigator, interviewer and witty storyteller to create an exhiliarating epic!
Robert Newman
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A fascinating and ultimately positive book ... a harmonic vision of how changing our relationship to land use, farming and the food that we eat could transform our lives
Thom Yorke
User Reviews
Book 4.5
Narration 5.0
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4.0 5.0
Stunningly interesting but one or two parts that lecture and erect straw men for him to destroy. Needed a better editor. Took 15 minutes, for example, to explain that the farmyards depicted in storybooks aren’t realistic.
berylb 2025-09-29 -
5.0 5.0
Totally important book. Well argued, well written, well read. I don’t see how any of it can be refuted. I hope all its constructive and well thought ideas catch on. For ‘stories’ read ‘media’
Philippa 2022-08-10
Details
- Author
- George Monbiot
- Narrator
- George Monbiot
- Duration
- 9 hours 29 minutes
- Release Date
- 26 May 2022
- ISBN
- 9780141999401
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Conservation of the environment, Food security and supply, Cultural studies: food and society, Agriculture, agribusiness and food production industries, Applied ecology, Environmental economics, Political activism / Political engagement, Sustainable agriculture
- Rating
- 4.5(4 reviews)
- Narration
- 5.0(4 reviews)
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.People talk a lot about the problems with intensive farming. But the problem isn't the adjective. It's the noun. Around the world, farming has been wiping out vast habitats, depleting freshwater, polluting oceans, and accelerating global heating, while leaving millions undernourished and unfed. Increasingly, there are signs that the system itself is beginning to flicker. But, as George Monbiot shows us in this brilliant, bracingly original new book, there is another way.Regenesis is an exhilarating journey into a new possible future for food, people and the planet. Drawing on the revelatory, rapidly advancing science of soil ecology, Monbiot shows how the hidden biological universe beneath our feet could transform what we eat and how we grow it. He travels to meet the people who are unlocking these methods, from the fruit and vegetable growers who cultivate pests as well as potatoes; through producers of perennial grains who are liberating their fields from ploughs; to the scientists pioneering new forms of protein and fat that can be cooked into rich golden pancakes and much, much more. We start to see how the tiniest life forms in the soil might help us save the living world, allowing us to produce abundant, cheap, healthy food while returning vast swathes of land to the wild.Here, for the first time, is a profoundly hopeful, appetising and exciting vision of food: of revolutionary cultivation and cuisine that could nourish us all and restore our world of wonders.© George Monbiot 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
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