Diet for a Hot Planet



I picked up Anna Lappé's Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It because she's going to be speaking at a food conference I'm going to later this month. (Well, that and I thought it sounded interesting.)

As the subtitle suggests, the book is about the connection between what we eat and climate change. Lappé divides the book into three sections: Crisis, Spin, and Hope. The first section (which was a bit dry for me) outlined the problem of global warming with more science jargon than my brain could easily comprehend, the second is how the food industry has spun the problem and have even profited from climate change (really interesting stuff), and the last section is how to make food choices that are not harmful to the planet. I can't say much of the third section was anything I didn't know, but it was a good reminder nonetheless. I enjoyed the book and found it inspiring. I'm looking forward to seeing her speak.



Anna is the daughter of Francis Moore Lappé, the author of Diet for a Hungry Planet.



Also: I found a short video of Anna Lappé speaking about the connection between our food choices and climate change that's worth checking it out.