To put pen to paper and make your voice heard. They are also an opportunity to act and respond to this crisis. These letters are an opportunity to reflect on our connection to the planet and each other in times of crisis. It’s natural to feel worried or concerned about what the future of the earth holds. Gathering together over 100 letters written in response to the climate emergency, each entry begins to give language to the unspeakable, and shows how our collective power is present when we are ready to slow down and listen to each other. One that attempts to answer some of these questions by listening to the voices of parents and children politicians and poets songwriters and scientists. Letters to the Earth Is the beginning of a new conversation. How can we begin to talk about what is happening to the world? How can we explain to our children, and to ourselves, what the future of our planet might look and feel like? He explains not just why the food system is leading us into disaster, but what can be done about it. In Ravenous, he takes us behind the scenes to reveal the mechanisms that act together to shape the modern diet – and therefore the world.
The environmental damage done by the food system is also changing climate patterns and degrading the earth, risking our food security.įew people know the workings of the food system better than Henry Dimbleby, co-founder of the Leon restaurant chain, government adviser and author of the radical National Food Strategy. Diet-related disease is now the biggest cause of preventable illness and death in the developed world – far worse than smoking. It sustains us, but it is also killing us. It is one of the most successful, most innovative and most destructive industries on earth. The food system is no longer simply a means of sustenance. Every mouthful you take is informed by the subtle tweaking and nudging of a vast, complex, global system: one so intimately woven into everyday life that you hardly even know it’s there. You may not be aware of this – not consciously, at least – but you do not control what you eat. Ravenous: How to Get Ourselves and Our Planet Into Shape by Henry Dimbleby with Jemima Lewis
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