Well-written, as one has come to expect of Monbiot, the book starts off strongly with a deep dive into soil ecology, which helps to frame later discussion of how soil should be seen as a living matrix and not just an inert substrate for plants and chemicals. The book really takes off over the next few chapters, detailing all the many problems with the current system of food production. Of particular note is the way that so much land and food production is so inefficiently mediated through meat, particularly beef. The second half of the book felt considerably weaker. Monbiot visits several unconventional farms, examining each in quite some detail and, while each seems a healthier alternative to more usual agriculture, none seemed particularly viable if scaled up to feed everyone. There's definitely lots of good stuff in here, and some of his prognoses are, frankly, a bit terrifying, but the stronger material felt rather let down by the weaker chapters.