Early into his new book The Blue Plate: A Food Lover's Guide to Climate Chaos, ecologist Mark Easter poses a playful, but loaded, question: "How could a morning piece of toast or a plate of dinner pasta be such a world-altering culprit?"

Q: In The Blue Plate, you dig into the emissions impact of the production and consumption of everything from husks of corn to hunks of meat.

Q: In The Blue Plate, you visited a Colorado farm where the farmers have eliminated things like mechanically tilling the soil or leaving land fallow, both of which degrade soil.

Q: Soil is a cornerstone of the global food system, and very much a focus of The Blue Plate.

Q: The through line of The Blue Plate is this question: "Can we eat our way out of the climate crisis?"