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Michael Grunwald

What Michael Grunwald thinks about sustainability

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Journalist and New York Times contributing writer, author of We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate. Argues that land, not energy, is the hard part of the climate problem, and that the world has to grow much more food on much less land.

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  1. Our readingSynthetic fertiliser is a serious climate and pollution problem and also the reason half the people alive are alive.

    Their wordsThey suck! But they also feed the world. Half the people alive today would be very not alive if fertilizers manufactured from natural gas weren’t super-sizing our harvests.

    ↗Farming Needs to Suck Lessmichaelgrunwald.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece

  2. 8 weeks earlier

  3. Our readingThe central problem of the food system is producing much more food on much less land.

    Their wordsit’s going to be incredibly difficult, but also incredibly necessary, for the world to produce much more food with much less land.

    ↗The Food Problem Is Bigger Than Lettucemichaelgrunwald.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece

  4. 3 months earlier

  5. Our readingWe know how to make cattle much less destructive; what nobody has solved is how to pay for it.

    Their wordsGive me a degraded pasture and a bunch of money, and even I can probably increase its beef yields 400 percent. I’m just not sure how to make the bunch-of-money part happen.

    ↗Beef Sucksmichaelgrunwald.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece

  6. 3 months earlier

  7. Our readingFeeding humanity without wrecking the climate will take engineered food, and squeamishness about technology in food is the thing to get over.

    Their wordsMy column is about how we’re going to need plant-based meat, cultivated meat, and all kinds of futuristic genetic engineering to grow enough food to feed humanity without frying the planet.

    ↗Get Over Your All-Natural Selfmichaelgrunwald.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece