BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:591@lexcan.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250924T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250924T203000 DTSTAMP:20260114T002921Z URL:https://lexcan.org/events/lexcans-climate-book-club-we-are-eating-the- earth-the-race-to-fix-our-food-system-and-save-our-climate/ SUMMARY:LexCAN's Climate Book Club: We are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fi x Our Food system and Save Our Climate DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\n\nLexCAN is pleased to co-sponsor a new "Climate Book Club" in partnership with Cary Library.\n\nThis month we will be dis cussing\, We are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food system and Sav e Our Climate by Michael Grunwald.\n\nAbout The Book (Simon &\; Schuste r)\n\nFrom the author of New York Times bestseller The New New Deal\, a gr oundbreaking piece of reportage from the trenches of the next climate war: the fight to fix our food system.\n\nHumanity has cleared a land mass the size of Asia plus Europe to grow food\, and our food system generates a t hird of our carbon emissions. By 2050\, we’re going to need a lot more c alories to fill nearly 10 billion bellies\, but we can’t feed the world without frying it if we keep tearing down an acre of rainforest every six seconds. We are eating the earth\, and the greatest challenge facing our s pecies will be to slow our relentless expansion of farmland into nature. E ven if we quit fossil fuels\, we’ll keep hurtling towards climate chaos if we don’t solve our food and land problems.\n\nIn this rollicking\, sh ocking narrative\, Grunwald shows how the world\, after decades of ignorin g the climate problem at the center of our plates\, has pivoted to making it worse\, embracing solutions that sound sustainable but could make it ev en harder to grow more food with less land. But he also tells the stories of the dynamic scientists and entrepreneurs pursuing real solutions\, from a jungle-tough miracle crop called pongamia to genetically-edited cattle embryos\, from Impossible Whoppers to a non-polluting pesticide that uses the technology behind the COVID vaccines to constipate beetles to death. I t’s an often infuriating saga of lobbyists\, politicians\, and even the scientific establishment making terrible choices for humanity\, but it’s also a hopeful account of the people figuring out what needs to be done —and trying to do it.\n\nMichael Grunwald\, bestselling author of The Sw amp and The New New Deal\, builds his narrative around a brilliant\, relen tless\, unforgettable food and land expert named Tim Searchinger. He chron icles Searchinger’s uphill battles against bad science and bad politics\ , both driven by the overwhelming influence of agricultural interests. And he illuminates a path that could save our planetary home for ourselves an d future generations—through better policy\, technology\, and behavior\, as well as a new land ethic recognizing that every acre matters.\n\nPleas e register as space is limited. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lexcan.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Un titled-design-7.png CATEGORIES:**LexCAN Events,*Featured,Educational,Food LOCATION:Lexington Community Center\, 39 Marrett Road\, Lexington\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=39 Marrett Road\, Lexington \, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Lexington Community Center:geo :0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR