Three new and recent books grapple with an inconvenient and uncomfortable truth: Agriculture is responsible for one-third of our global climate problem.
It’s a finding that propelled Michael Grunwald, formerly a reporter for The Washington Post and now an independent journalist and author, to research and write “We Are Eating the Earth.”
Grunwald learned the stat from Tim Searchinger, an environmental lawyer with an intuitive sense for when things don’t add up and a zeal for confirming his suspicions. Searchinger became a source, a friend, and an adviser. Their investigations of agriculture and climate change eventually led to Grunwald’s new book.