Everyone’s going crazy about high food prices. Here’s my five-point plan to lower them!

We desperately need permitting reform, even if it means easier permits for drilling as well as renewables, but I don’t see how Dems can go along with it if it lets Trump keep blocking renewables.

When I say WE ARE EATING THE EARTH, I mean agriculture is eating the earth. Farms cover 40% of our land, and they’re overrunning a soccer field worth of forest every six seconds. When you eat a burger, you’re eating the Amazon.

This is very popular with my climate people but it is a very bad Ted talk! The world is not going to stop burning fossil fuels tomorrow, so reducing emissions is going to require strategy and prioritization and uncomfortable conversations.

Trump is bailing out farmers again, because of course he is. This is how it always works in Washington, D.C.: Heads farmers win, tails taxpayers lose

This could be a problem for @mikegrunwald.bsky.social.

The regenerative movement thinks the eco-tragedy of agriculture is the intensification of nice pastoral farms into evil industrial farms. No! It’s the transformation of nature into pastoral farms. That’s when we lost most of the carbon and biodiversity.

Amen to @mattyglesias.bsky.social’s plea for a sensible moderate to run for FL’s winnable Senate seat. I swear I’d run myself if I didn’t have such a terrible personality. www.slowboring.com/p/democrats-...

Nice to be lumped with @billmckibben.bsky.social and Ian McEwan for @sierramagazine.bsky.social’s must-read books for winter. “Gifted storyteller” is very kind! www.sierraclub.org/sierra/4-mus...

Our last environmental book column of the year, featuring @jonathanslaght.com @susannahfisher.bsky.social @hillaryrosner.bsky.social @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social @mikegrunwald.bsky.social & many others. therevelator.org/environmenta...

WEST PALM BEACH! I’m speaking at today’s Southeast Florida Climate Leadership Summit. First 200 to show up get a free book! www.instagram.com/p/DQxNpxaDif...

"Even climate activists, understandably obsessed with fossil fuels, have mostly ignored food and agriculture—and when they’ve paid attention, they’ve mostly pushed low-yield farming approaches that make the problem worse." atmos.earth/climate-solu...

“We are eating the Earth…Carbohydrates will be an even tougher problem to solve than hydrocarbons.” - @mikegrunwald.bsky.social

This harrowing @propublica story about the carnage created by Trump’s USAID cuts in South Sudan won’t get as much attention as his deranged Rob Reiner rant but they’re both stories about a president who just doesn’t give a shit about other humans. www.propublica.org/article/usai...

This gets the land-use math right: we can’t solve climate while expanding agriculture. Where the conversation still needs to go is how we increase output without doubling down on open-field fragility. Yield matters — but so does control, predictability, and resilience. #futureoffood #AgTech #CEA

Do you know someone who eats? Does that someone also happen to live on the earth? Here’s an idea for the perfect holiday gift: WE ARE EATING THE EARTH. Seriously, not everyone will agree with all of it but everyone who’s read it has said it’s a good read. www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Are...

Major ICE raids around Miami the last few days. Immigrants are freaking out.

“Land is not free Land is not free There’s only so much land in the world That’s all that there’s ever gonna be Land is not free Land is not free Every acre is sacred Land is not free” 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼

Jimmy Kimmel did a funny bit about the hysteria over GMOs: most of the people who hate them don’t even know what they are. They’re already ubiquitous, and they’re fine–for your body and the environment. No need to freak out.

Today's USDA/RFK plan to spend $700 million on "regenerative practices" was super-vague. I criticized Biden for overspending on this stuff; I don't know if this is different. But I know this: 1. Farmers get the $. 2. No accountability for outcomes. content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USD...

I’m happy we have a Democratic mayor in Miami after decades of corrupt Republican hacks but let’s chill on the bellwether stuff. Higgins got 20K votes in a city of 500K. Dems are doing great in low-turnout elections but they’ve still got a lot of work to do here. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

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Indoor farming sounds like an awesome solution to the problems of outdoor farming, like bad weather and nighttime. And it is a nice solution for niche crops like lettuce and weed. But it’s not going to produce the staple crops that feed the world.

I wrote about Cocoanuts in THE SWAMP, in my chapter on the first Florida land boom. "You can even get stucco. Oh boy, can you get stucco." But remember: The schemers and dreamers and liars were ultimately right! Their lies eventually came true!

I wrote an essay for @atmosmag.bsky.social about how we can feed the world without frying the world. atmos.earth/climate-solu...

Tom Steyer didn’t stop talking about climate because he stopped believing in climate action. He stopped talking about climate because he believes that will help him win, and those of us who support climate action should think about that. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

More welfare for farmers, less food stamps for hungry families. content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USD...

Our World in Data’s latest: “I wish this was more widely understood. Land use change for agriculture is the main threat to the world’s biodiversity.” I just wrote a book with a bright orange cover about this and I also wish it was more widely understood! ourworldindata.org/global-fores...

For farmers, everything. For hungry families, the law. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

“The most important book of the decade, if not the century.” I guess a podcast called “Climate & Cuisine” is the target audience for WE ARE EATING THE EARTH but those were still very nice words and this was a very interesting chat. m.youtube.com/watch?v=kEfu...

"A key lesson of the Beyond Coal campaign is that the energy transition isn’t going to happen on its own. People have to do the work to make it happen," writes @mikegrunwald.bsky.social: www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle... 🔌💡

Ten years after @mikegrunwald.bsky.social embedded in the Sierra Club’s War on Coal, here’s how it’s still winning — and how Trump administration retaliation is complicating coal’s endgame.

Great piece from @mikegrunwald.bsky.social documenting how the campaigners and litigators at @sierraclub.org are still winning the war on coal despite fierce opposition from the Trump Admin and headwinds from the AI energy demand. @canarymedia.com 1/

"We win on the law. We win on the economics. But sometimes we lose on the politics." My war-on-coal update, a decade later. www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

Oof, such a good read @sierraclub.org's Kristin Henry: “We win on the law. We win on the economics. But sometimes we lose on the politics.”

"costs of wind, solar, and batteries have continued to plunge; they made up 94% of the U.S. grid’s new capacity in 2024. They now generate more than a quarter of the electricity in California — and a third in Texas. And battery storage is expanding even faster, growing by two-thirds in 2024."

In 2015, I wrote the first big article inside the war on coal for @politico.com. Ten years later, I wrote about how the war is going for @canarymedia.com. The @sierraclub.org is still winning the war, but Trump and AI are complicating the endgame. www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

This psycho, by the way, is desperately trying to root out any climate sanity inside the military. Shouldn't the overriding priority of the climate sanity movement, and other sanity movements, be to replace the psychos?

Clever move by Zillow to eliminate climate risks by not reporting them. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...

Thanks, Smithsonian Magazine! www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture...

I am thankful for reactions like this from ass-kickers like Kieran.

This is dorky-earnest but I want to thank everyone who’s been reading my book, debating the ideas, and coming to my events. It’s been so cool meeting people who are fired up about this stuff, it makes the years of agony worthwhile. A few examples:

United is running ads with Oscar the Grouch, promising to turn trash into “sustainable aviation fuel.” But most SAF won’t be trash. It will be crops, and it will be a disaster. Running 25% of our planes on crops would use 40% of our cropland.

I listed five food/environment books I love for shepherd.com. Well, four that I love and one that everyone else loves. shepherd.com/best-books/h...

MIAMI! I’m home to talk about WE ARE EATING THE EARTH today at 11 at the book fair. Come say hi! www.miamibookfair.com/event/on-the...

We’ll need to grow 50% more calories by 2050 to feed the world, and we’ll need to do it with less land. People keep telling me, no, we just need to stop wasting food and eating meat, but how’s that going? The math sucks, but the math is the math.

“A masterful job of reporting and storytelling.” It’s nice to be recognized by colleagues so I’m especially pumped about this @sejorg.bsky.social review.

Sri Lanka banned all synthetic fertilizers and pesticides–and the nation nearly self-destructed. I get why people hate chemicals, but they do help food grow, and we’ll need to grow more food in the next 30 years than we’ve grown in the last 12000.

This should be the biggest story in Florida: DeSantis minions approve the largest electricity rate hike in US history for Florida Plunder & Loot. A $7B transfer from us to Republican donors. floridaphoenix.com/2025/11/20/p...

Photosynthesis has supported all life on Earth for 3 billion years, but it turns out to be quite inefficient. So scientists are trying to engineer out its inefficiencies with AI and gene editing, using innovation to help hungry people and the climate.