This book is bound to be a contemporary classic on agricultural and climate policy issues from a conservative or right perspective. Complementary to philosophical works like Scruton's How to Think Seriously About the Planet and the works of agrarians like Berry and urbanists like Jacobs, Klar's work advances an actionable policy agenda that can be undertaken without sacrifice of core conservative principles. As Klar, and Salatin in the Foreward, both note, it's disheartening that a book like this will be difficult to get into the hands that need it, but those interested in real change in farm and food policy should make a concerted effort to do so.

Questionable Sources Mar Intriguing Premise. This book's general premise - a strategy for the American Right to lean in to its traditional principles, ignore "Climate Change", and yet still manage to out-green the American Left - is a truly intriguing idea, one Klar has clearly put quite a bit of thought into. His general plan does in fact read like a Republican was trying to put together exactly that type of plan, but in a fairly realistic, "this is actually politically viable" manner. (Rather than the "pie in the sky" so many demagogues of all stripes generally propose.)

What calls this book into question are the sources it uses - two, in fact, that I've reviewed before and which have proven to be questionable themselves (Chris Smaje's October 2020 book A Small Farm Future and Shanna Swan and Stacey Colino's February 2021 book Count Down). Citing either one as what the author considers to be legitimate evidence would be enough for a star deduction on its own, and thus the two star deduction here.