WE ARE EATING THE EARTH The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate

Despite its off-putting title, this audiobook is worth listening to. Golden Voice Kevin R. Free delivers the urgent tone, informative style, and crisp pacing of this eye-opening work. Free gets Grunwald's sometimes snarky tone--for example, when the author shares his tasting notes on fake meat and other engineered foods. Free also embraces the factual reporting. The text is at once a jeremiad about ignoring the role land use plays in the climate crisis and an exploration of the many experiments that have taken place in food science, farming, and growing crops in alternative spaces. The author owes much to Princeton researcher--and often contrarian--Tim Searchinger, who was among the first to debunk biofuels, biomass, and regenerative ag (organic, too) as answers to global warming. A.D.M. © AudioFile 2025, Portland, Maine [Published: JULY 2025]