Long before Michael Pollan brought food and politics together at the table, Frances Moore Lapp revolutionized the way we think about food and the transformative power of big ideas in her three-million-copy bestseller, Diet for a Small Planet. Now in EcoMind she shakes the foundations of progressive environmental thought. Lappe argues that the biggest challenge to human survival is not melting glaciers or plastic bottles, scorched farmland or denatured forests as problematic as these things may bebut rather our faulty way of thinking about environmental crises. She posits that we are trapped by a set of assumptions that emphasize only what we must give up, and consequently, these assumptions paralyze and overwhelm us.
