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Which aren't particularly challenging but sort of provide a sort of comfort food for the mind for a lot of people. well, that's interesting because i mean, i think i like to deal with that stuff but actually, i'm also a bit more disruptive than that, but i try to do... i love emily dickinson, one of my favourite poets. and she said, "tell all the truths, but tell it slant. "success in circuit lies." and i'm really interested in how you talk about these ideas. talk about change, the possibilities of change in ways that are not so directly confrontational because there's no shortage of confronta...

And it is interesting to me now that one of the things you are doing, and very successfully doing, is writing the most quintessentially english crime novels, which aren't particularly challenging but sort of provide a sort of comfort food for the mind for a lot of people. well, that's interesting because i mean, i think i like to deal with that stuff but actually, i'm also a bit more disruptive than that, but i try to do... i love emily dickinson, one of my favourite poets. and she said, "tell all the truths, but tell it slant. "success in circuit lies." and i'm really interested in how you ta...

Recently in talking about the book and what it means, that you reached a point where you were tired of fighting the activist fight to change society. yeah. and it is interesting to me now that one of the things you are doing, and very successfully doing, is writing the most quintessentially english crime novels, which aren't particularly challenging but sort of provide a sort of comfort food for the mind for a lot of people. well, that's interesting because i mean, i think i like to deal with that stuff but actually, i'm also a bit more disruptive than that, but i try to do... i love emily dic...

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 dilemma we face. i mean, it's notjust a question of seeing it as a problem, there is a huge weight of empirical evidence showing that farming is by far the greatest cause of habitat destruction, of wildlife loss, of extinction, of land use, which is perhaps the most important environmental metric of all, of soil degradation, of freshwater use, and one of the greatest causes of c...

Showing that farming is by far the greatest cause of habitat destruction, of wildlife loss, of extinction, of land use, which is perhaps the most important environmental metric of all, of soil degradation, of freshwater use, and one of the greatest causes of climate breakdown, of water pollution and of air pollution. so it's notjust a matter of opinion, this is the industry which comes top of the list of all damaging human activities. now, of course, we... stephen chuckles yes, except what you haven't mentioned there is that over that millennia, we humans have figured out ways to feed, success...