George Monbiot in conversation

In conversation with Tim Smit

6.30pm, Thursday 20th October

The Poly

Tickets: £8 and £5

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George Monbiot is one of our most significant environmental campaigners and the winner of this year's Orwell Prize for journalism. He’s coming to Falmouth to talk about the climate crisis and the need to change the way we eat before it’s too late.

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People talk a lot about the problems with intensive farming. But the problem isn't the adjective. It's the noun. Around the world, farming has been wiping out vast habitats, depleting freshwater, polluting oceans and accelerating global heating, while leaving millions undernourished and unfed. Increasingly, there are signs that the system itself is beginning to flicker. But, as George Monbiot shows, there is another way.

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Regenesis is an exhilarating journey into a new possible future for food, people and the planet. Drawing on the revelatory, rapidly advancing science of soil ecology, Monbiot shows how the hidden biological universe beneath our feet could transform what we eat and how we grow it.

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Here, for the first time, is a profoundly hopeful, appetising and exciting vision of food: of revolutionary cultivation and cuisine that could nourish us all and restore our world of wonders.