and surrounded by fear, also. i mean, it s not easy to see how we re going to get through this century, let alone those that follow. your latest book, regenesis, essentially describes the way we produce food around the world as perhaps the single most damaging thing we are doing to the natural world. and yet we all need to eat. mm hm. and thanks to farming, almost all of us can sustain ourselves with decent amounts of food. why do you see this as such a problem? well, this is the great dilemma we face. i mean, it s notjust a question of seeing it as a problem, there is a huge weight of empirical evidence showing that farming is by far the greatest cause of habitat destruction, of wildlife loss, of extinction, of land use, which is perhaps the most important environmental metric of all, of soil degradation, of freshwater use, and one of the greatest causes of climate breakdown, of water pollution and of air pollution. so it s notjust a matter of opinion, this is the industry w
the area s currently under russia s control. moscow and kyiv accuse each other of shelling the site. now on bbc news, it s time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. we humans face a series of interlinked existential challenges. how do we feed a global population heading toward 10 billion? can it be done without degrading ecosystems and exacerbating climate change to a calamitous extent? well, my guest today, the writer and environmental campaigner george monbiot, has spent decades addressing these questions and framing radical answers. why are so many politicians and voters seemingly unwilling to listen? george monbiot, welcome to hardtalk. thanks, stephen. you have been a campaigner and writer on environmental issues for decades, warning about the toxic relationship between human beings and our planet. i just wonder how you prioritise? how do you decide where to focus? mm, it s very hard. i mean, every week when i m writing a column for the guardian, for in
george monbiot, welcome to hardtalk. thanks, stephen. you have been a campaigner and writer on environmental issues for decades, warning about the toxic relationship between human beings and our planet. i just wonder how you prioritise? how do you decide where to focus? mm, it s very hard. i mean, every week when i m writing a column for the guardian, for instance, or making a video, i have a choice of about 20 different topics that i could latch onto. it s very frightening. i mean, to be environmentally aware, to have an environmental education is, as the great writer aldo leopold put it, to live in a world of wounds. you re surrounded by grief, you re surrounded by the pain of what you re seeing, and surrounded by fear, also. i mean, it s not easy to see how we re going to get through this century, let alone those that follow. your latest book, regenesis, essentially describes the way we produce food around the world as perhaps the single most damaging thing we are doing to
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