Food without agriculture

The food industry is one of the main causes for the heating of the planet and the loss of biodiversity. ›Organic‹, ›less pesticides‹ and ›regional‹ are often considered to be the solution – but they cannot solve the problem that we have taken too much space from wilderness to claim for our needs. The biologist E. O. Wilson estimates that we need to give back about half the earth to wilderness in order to combat climate crisis and species extinction. How can we achieve this?

For Oliver Stengel, the only effective course of action is to abolish agriculture all together. He outlines a radical plan for the ›food of the future‹, in which we return the agricultural land to nature and start to grow raw materials and food from cells. A radical, exeptional proposal that takes the problems we face seriously.

OLIVER STENGEL
studied sociology, psychology and politics. He holds a professorship for sustainable development at the University of Bochum.