Life Can Be Sweet
Our addiction to sugar is killing us and the planet, but Nature already runs another way.
The densest source of edible calories per square metre in nature is not a grass. It is a palm, and it delivers those calories from a standing tree that is never cut down, never replanted, and never reset. The world nevertheless grows the overwhelming majority of its sugar from a short-cycle grass that has to be destroyed and re-established every four ye…
