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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 1h

The best headline ever for a story about me. And what I love about his @prospectmagazine.co.uk piece is its focus on the fun narrative of WE ARE EATING THE EARTH, not just the gloomy facts. Although it also discusses my potty mouth. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7122...

‘Holy shit! This is a big deal and people don’t know about it!’

Michael Grunwald is used to writing about the effects of fossil fuels on the planet—but then he discovered what agriculture is doing. We spoke to him ...

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 12h

SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS: Wow, that was dark. “You’re dead, son,” the evil columnist tells the slimy flack, “Get yourself buried.” Lancaster and Curtis rock, although we’re back to one-dimensional women characters. A great film about transactional NYC scumbags. Timely!

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 1d

the kind of classic i've already seen three times

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 1d

yes that was cringe, and i guess the entire trope of evil young woman exploiting the sisterhood to climb to the top was retro. but wow, the emotions were so raw and beautiful, every bette davis glance, the gender dynamics of writer/director/actress. An even better long-con film than THE STING!

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 2d

We all vote on food issues three times a day, and most of us don’t think about the impact of our diets. I wrote WE ARE EATING THE EARTH because I want people to understand the tradeoffs behind the choices we make. Eat what you want, but know what you’re doing.

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 2d

ALL ABOUT EVE: Awesome. I take back what I said about underwritten women characters in old movies! Bette Davis, wow. Loved the Broadway/Hollywood theme, loved the take on aging, loved the sicko critic character, just loved it.

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 2d

BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID: beautifully shot, unexpectedly funny, great dude acting and chemistry although the women in these old movies are really underwritten. The second half dragged, so what, Newman and Redford are so much fun to watch.

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 2d

CSPAN aired my chat with the great @sbg1.bsky.social about WE ARE EATING THE EARTH.

www.c-span.org/program/book...

[We are Eating the Earth - The Race to Fix Our Food System & Save Our Climate]

Michael Grunwald argued that there should be more effort to change our food system, which contributes to a third of human carbon emissions. Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C., hosted this event.

www.c-span.org

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 3d

One reason I’m still on Twitter is that stuff like this still happens there:

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 3d

It was kind of rude, and to their credit they were very gracious and said they wouldn’t do it again.

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 3d

They were super-gracious and said they wouldn’t do it again.

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 3d

The Everglades Coalition gave me an award last year and because I’m unfortunately me, I called them out in my speech for serving beef at dinner.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 4d

Meat is a blind spot for people who care about climate. When I used to have dinner with my colleague Wally Broecker, the climate scientist who coined the term “global warming”, he would always order a steak.

The climate movement’s biggest weakness

What the climate movement is getting dead wrong.

www.vox.com

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 4d

I'll be on Climate Chat tomorrow at 1 on YouTube Live. The topic, and this just happens to coincide with my somewhat friskier new tone, will be: "Is Carbon Farming a Scam?"

www.youtube.com/live/4W5J2XK...

Is "Carbon Farming" a Scam? with author Michael Grunwald

YouTube video by Climate Chat

www.youtube.com

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 4d

It felt like a 4-hour movie cut down to 2 hours by a different director who got rid of all the back story and character development and relationship building. Super interesting themes, especially about the military, but kind of a mess?

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 4d

FROM HERE TO ETERNITY: Wow that was dark. And weirdly unsatisfying. The relationships weren’t earned; would’ve worked better as a modern prestige TV series. Lancaster & Clift killed it, Sinatra trying to act against type reminded me of Bad Bunny in Happy Gilmore 2.

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 4d

Next up THE STING, in honor of Redford. This one I got! Super-fun, great acting, great script, loved how it was shot, loved the angle on the Depression. A lot of confidence-game tropes you now see all the time but I assume this is where they started.

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 4d

I started with TAXI DRIVER. It was...weird and just OK? I usually love DeNiro but I couldn't figure out what he was trying to do. The NYC noir was cool and Jodie Foster was disturbingly great, otherwise I didn't really get why it's a classic.

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve decided to start watching more Movies Everyone’s Supposed to Watch. I’ll leave all my honest (and probably embarrassing) reactions in this thread. Please send recommendations!

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 4d

That is absolutely true but not what I meant - most of the people pushing “food justice” hate the idea of giving smallholder farmers better seeds or chemicals that would help them grow more food.

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 5d

Aw thanks Richard!

Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 5d

A shrooms-aided four-word summary of WE ARE EATING THE EARTH: “Trees are good, man.”

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 5d

Be sure to follow @mikegrunwald.bsky.social for more of this nuanced analysis that nobody likes and nobody clicks

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 5d

The irony is, the advocates pushing "justice" in food systems are usually pushing low-yield organic/regenerative approaches that are nice for Chez Panisse but make food more expensive for the poor and more damaging to the planet.

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 5d

There does seem to be a lot in there about "just food systems." And sure, poor people need healthy food, I'm not pushing an anti-woke agenda. But I trust scientists more for analysis of what's healthy and what causes emissions than how food economies should be structured.

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 5d

The new #EATLancet report on healthy and sustainable diets seems more honest than the last one; it generally recommends plant-forward diets, which is good, but it also recognizes that beef is way worse for the planet (and probably your health) than poultry or pork. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and just food systems

The global context has shifted dramatically since publication of the first EAT–Lancet Commission in 2019, with increased geopolitical instability, soaring food prices, and the COVID-19 pandemic exacer...

www.thelancet.com

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