Comments on: Book review – Never Out of Season: How Having the Food We Want When We Want it Threatens Our Food Supply and Our Future

By: Book review – A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us About the Destiny of the Human Species | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 22 Aug 2022 10:12:08 +0000

[…] This is risky, though, as pests eventually catch up, something we allow to take us by surprise again and again. Closely related to this is the niche concept: the set of parameters circumscribing where an […]

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By: Book review – Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 01 Jun 2022 12:13:45 +0000

[…] extent that, once you know their topology, you can predict how stable they are. Since the 1960s, we have increasingly globalized both food production methods and our diets, relied on fewer crops th…, which “is another way of saying that we are reducing its redundancy” (p. 31). Many […]

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By: Book review – Climate Change and the Health of Nations: Famines, Fevers, and the Fate of Populations | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 23 Jan 2019 09:28:04 +0000

[…] capacity allowed by our environment? I think we all know the answer to that (see also my review of Never Out of Season: How Having the Food We Want When We Want it Threatens Our Food Supply and Our F…). It is a tall order to look at the totality of the picture revealed here and remain as optimistic […]

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By: Book review – The Seneca Effect: Why Growth is Slow but Collapse is Rapid | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 05 Sep 2018 08:20:32 +0000

[…] The Irish potato famine was also described in Never Out of Season. Bardi convincingly argues Ireland’s geology and political situation exacerbated the […]

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By: Book review – The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century | The Inquisitive Biologist

Tue, 17 Apr 2018 09:49:34 +0000

[…] on agriculture alone could create new violent shocks, and, I fear, become a new type of horseman. Never Out of Season: How Having the Food We Want When We Want it Threatens Our Food Supply and Our F… provided a cautionary tale that I feel ill at ease […]

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By: Book review – Dinner with Darwin: Food, Drink, and Evolution | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 26 Mar 2018 12:30:53 +0000

[…] Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov’s Quest to End Famine and my review of Never Out Of Season: How Having the Food We Want When We Want it Threatens Our Food Supply and Our F…). Silvertown delves into the biochemistry of taste and the budding discipline of neurogastronomy, […]

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By: Book review – All the Boats on the Ocean: How Government Subsidies Led to Global Overfishing | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 23 Nov 2017 13:53:20 +0000

[…] will come right out and say that this is not an easy book to read. I read this right after Never Out of Season, which, broadly speaking, deals with a similar topic (human exploitation of the environment for […]

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