The fourth climate speech asks, how do we feed the world?
Half of the world's habitable land is used to produce our food, while the other large areas are polluted by fertilizers, pesticides and sewage. How can we feed the world without harming the planet? George Monbiot, Emma Heiling and Sebastien Treyer aimed to tackle this big question at the fourth Ecologues talk, presented by News Decoder, the Climate Academy and the American Library in Paris. We have the food system wrong George Monbiot, columnist, filmmaker, and author of Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet, kicked off the meeting in full attendance at the American Library and online, highlighting the gap between widely accepted claims about our food system and scientific findings that contradict them. "Almost everything we think we know about the nutrition system is wrong and more than any other system it is surrounded by myth, by wishful thinking, by gut instincts, understandably, and by a complete inability to really understand what science is tellin...