Planetary Eating - The Hidden Links between Your Plate and Our Cosmic Neighborhood

A scientifically rigorous guide to making the best dietary choices for both our personal health and our environmental footprint. Many of us try our best to eat foods that are healthy and environmentally sustainable. But are we getting it right? Which foods amount to "wise" choices, and which ones are best avoided? Common views often range widely and are sometimes even contradictory. Likely most unfortunate is conscientious individuals who go to great lengths in their quest to minimize environmental impacts following the wrong advice. In Eshel writes that dietary choices, and the corresponding agricultural patterns, are, for most of us, our principal form of planetary agency--the main ways by which we impact our overburdened and undernourished host planet. Agriculture and diet are therefore most productively examined through the planetary science perspective. Starting from rather basic (but not quite first) principles,

About the author

Gidon Eshel is Research Professor at Bard. He completed a postdoc at the Harvard Center for Planetary Physics, where he was a NOAA Global and Climate Change Fellow, and received a Radcliffe Fellowship in 2016. He has written tens of papers on the geophysics of food.

Product details

• Authors: Gidon Eshel, Eshel Gidon
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 24.06.2025
• EAN: 9780262552141
• ISBN: 978-0-262-55214-1
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 229 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food, Food & society, Agriculture and farming, AGRICULTURE & FARMING, Sustainable agriculture, Central / national / federal government policies, Cultural studies: food and society, Central government policies