Enough, Dr Cassandra Coburn
Enough, Dr Cassandra Coburn
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Enough
How your food choices will save the planet

Author: Dr Cassandra Coburn

Narrator: Jess Nesling

Unabridged: 9 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Gaia

Published: 01/07/2021

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

We produce and eat unhealthy food, killing ourselves and the planet in the process. Food production systems are the single biggest cause of environmental change to the planet. And the food we are producing is killing us - more than a quarter of the world's population is overweight or obese, and deaths from stroke, heart attack, cancer, diabetes etc are at epidemic levels. It's easy to feel helpless.

In 2019 a seminal piece of research was published which, for the first time, made clear recommendations for a way to produce food and to eat that would save both the planet's resources and our own health. The Planetary Health Diet was the culmination of years of research by 37 eminent scientists of various backgrounds into this question - can we provide a growing population with a healthy diet from sustainable food systems? The answer is yes.

Enough is a practical explanation of the Planetary Health Diet's research, allowing everyone to understand the science and to adopt its recommendations in our daily lives. The PHD specifies the food groups we should be eating. But what does a diet composed of, for example, 30% carbohydrates really look like? Which carbs, exactly? The diet is largely plant-based but does encompass meat and fish - but how many servings? It also explains what the nine 'planetary boundaries' are, that our food production systems must not exceed - from the quantities of nitrogen and phosphorus in the ecosystem to freshwater use.

As a scientist and journalist Dr Cassandra Coburn is brilliantly placed to provide this clear, ultimately hopeful and hugely important roadmap for own future health, and that of the planet.

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About Dr Cassandra Coburn

Dr Cassandra Coburn received her PhD in Genetics from University College London in 2012. She has worked as a freelance science journalist, held the position of Deputy Editor of The Lancet Oncology and is currently Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet Healthy Longevity. She continues to publish academically and speaks at conferences worldwide, as well as chairing multiple bodies of scientific work and being active in numerous initiatives, for example in 2017 she launched an initiative on revolutionising cancer care with former US vice president Joe Biden at the UN headquarters.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Scott on May 28, 2016

This book gets 3 stars for effort but for the most part McKibben fails miserably at convincing me we need to put restrictions on our technological growth as a human race to somehow preserve our humanity. Most of McKibben's arguments seem to be gut reactions to the ickiness of germline genetic engine......more

Goodreads review by Farhan on October 25, 2014

This is a cautionary book about the exponentially advancing disciplines of genetic engineering, robotics, and nanotechnology that have the potential of bringing about changes at the very core of human physicality and psychology. McKibben takes us on an eye-popping tour of the very frontiers of the c......more

Goodreads review by Fadillah on November 27, 2023

In this metaphore, consciousness becomes a more subtle and complicated phenomenon. If we see ourselves as being inexorably driven forward by the irresistible forces of cultural 'evolution,' then consciousness is merely the nifty tool that we've hit on to speed up the process. It allows us to build b......more

Goodreads review by Dennis Littrell on August 18, 2019

A short-sighted, emotional reaction to change This is an alarmist polemic about the danger that unrestrained growth in germline engineering, nanotechnology and artificial intelligence poses for the human race. Bill McKibben is terrified (the word is not too strong) that science and technology are on......more

Goodreads review by William on November 28, 2019

Enough is a plaintive cry for common sense when it comes to technology. The book is written by Bill McKibben, a man with a prior entry in the literature when he spoke of global warming. The book is from 2003 and it shows. That isn’t to say that the points it makes are wrong per se, it is just that th......more