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breeze are always strongest across southern counties of england. thatll be the case through this evening and overnight. in east anglia and the south—east, a few more showers cropping up towards the morning. lots of cloud across parts of scotland. that will stop the temperature dropping too much, but any cloud breaks here, down into single figures in the countryside, and it will be a bit fresher through some rural parts of england and wales. where we start with lots of sunshine tomorr...

in a late night tweet. the football club has been owned by the florida—based glazer family since 2005. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. im stephen sackur. we humans face a series of interlinked existential challenges. how do we feed a global population heading toward 10 billion? can it be done without degrading ecosystems and exacerbating climate change to a calamitous extent? well, my guest today, the writer and environmental campaigner george monbiot, has spent decad...

and surrounded by fear, also. i mean, its not easy to see how were going to get through this century, let alone those that follow. your latest book, regenesis, essentially describes the way we produce food around the world as perhaps the single most damaging thing we are doing to the natural world. and yet we all need to eat. mm—hm. and thanks to farming, almost all of us can sustain ourselves with decent amounts of food. why do you see this as such a problem? well, this is the great...

the areas currently under russias control. moscow and kyiv accuse each other of shelling the site. now on bbc news, its time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. im stephen sackur. we humans face a series of interlinked existential challenges. how do we feed a global population heading toward 10 billion? can it be done without degrading ecosystems and exacerbating climate change to a calamitous extent? well, my guest today, the writer and environmental campaigner george monbiot, has spen...

george monbiot, welcome to hardtalk. thanks, stephen. you have been a campaigner and writer on environmental issues for decades, warning about the toxic relationship between human beings and our planet. i just wonder how you prioritise? how do you decide where to focus? mm, its very hard. i mean, every week when im writing a column for the guardian, for instance, or making a video, i have a choice of about 20 different topics that i could latch onto. its very frightening. i mean, to be...

Of forms of food production which are low impact and low yield or high impact and high yield, but its bringing the two best aspects together. low impact, high yield is what we desperately need to be looking for if we are to feed the world, without devouring the planet. but the detail matters. one of your recommendations, for example, as i understand it, is the perennial crops, replacing those that have to be annually planted and reared. all of the evidence ive seen suggests that by year three or...

In other words, earth systems would completely collapse. weve been dealing in pictures. weve been looking at things which we think are beautiful, when we should be dealing in numbers. we should be considering what the numbers tell us. and what im looking for throughout this is forms of food production which are low impact and high yield. now you can point to plenty of forms of food production which are low impact and low yield or high impact and high yield, but its bringing the two best aspects ...

Farming is extremely low yielding. if that was the way we were to produce our food, we would need several planets to do it and thered be no space for wild ecosystems at all. in other words, earth systems would completely collapse. in other words, earth systems would completely collapse. weve been dealing in pictures. weve been looking at things which we think are beautiful, when we should be dealing in numbers. we should be considering what the numbers tell us. and what im looking for throughout...