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Books like The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World
The best books like The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World are The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, The Omnivore's Dilemma, and Salt Sugar Fat. The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World by Amanda Little is about food systems, climate change, agriculture. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
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The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
David Wallace-Wells · Science
The Uninhabitable Earth is David Wallace-Wells's catalog of what climate change will do to human civilization if carbon emissions continue on or near their current trajectory.
Both dig into climate change.
Read the summary → - The Omnivore's Dilemma
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Michael Pollan · Health
The Omnivore's Dilemma is Michael Pollan's investigation into four food chains — industrial, industrial organic, local pastoral, and hunted-and-gathered — organized around the question of what we should eat.
Shares food systems and sustainability with The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World.
Read the summary → - Salt Sugar Fat
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Michael Moss · Science
Michael Moss, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, spent four years inside the processed food industry to produce Salt Sugar Fat.
A kindred science read.
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- In Defense of Food
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Michael Pollan · Health
In Defense of Food opens with seven words that amount to a quiet provocation: Eat food.
A kindred science read.
Read the summary → - Fast Food Nation
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Eric Schlosser · Science
Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation is one of the most consequential pieces of American investigative journalism of the early twenty-first century.
A kindred science read.
Read the summary → - A World Without Ice
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Henry Pollack · Science
Henry Pollack is a geophysicist at the University of Michigan who spent decades studying the Earth's heat flow and was a contributing author to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Both dig into climate change.
Read the summary → - Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
Charles Petzold · Science
Code is Charles Petzold's explanation of how computers work, built from first principles.
Both dig into technology.
Read the summary → - Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
William McDonough & Michael Braungart · Science
Cradle to Cradle is William McDonough and Michael Braungart's argument that the conventional approach to environmentalism — reducing, reusing, recycling, being "less bad" — is insufficient and in some ways misleading.
Both dig into sustainability.
Read the summary → - Happy City
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Charles Montgomery · Science
Happy City is Charles Montgomery's investigation into the relationship between the design of cities and the psychological well-being of their inhabitants.
Both dig into sustainability.
Read the summary → - How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
Bill Gates · Science
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster is Bill Gates's attempt to explain the scale of the climate problem and outline what it would actually take to reach zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Both dig into climate change.
Read the summary → - Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
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Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
David Eagleman · Science
David Eagleman's argument is that "hardwired" is the wrong metaphor for the brain.
Both dig into technology.
Read the summary → - The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
Simon Singh · Science
Simon Singh's The Code Book traces the history of cryptography from Caesar's cipher through the breaking of Enigma to the mathematics of public-key encryption and the looming possibility of quantum cryptography.
Both dig into technology.
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Books like The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World: quick answers
What are the best books like The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World?
The best books like The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World by Amanda Little are The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells, The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan, Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss, In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan, Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World, such as food systems, climate change, agriculture.
What should I read after The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World?
A natural next read after The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World is The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells. Both dig into climate change. Other strong choices are The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan, Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss, In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan.
What books are similar to The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World by Amanda Little?
The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World centers on food systems, climate change, agriculture. Books with a similar feel include The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells, The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan, Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss, In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan, Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser, A World Without Ice by Henry Pollack — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
