An Open Letter to COP 30 Attendees

Food, climate and an opportunity in the Amazon that cannot be wasted.

Scales of Arapaima gigas (pirarucu/paiche), hunted in the tightly managed waters of the Apayacu River in the Peruvian Amazon.

Dear attendees of COP 30,

For the last couple of years while working on a book, not to mention the previous 20 years more casually before that, I have been crisscrossing the Amazon thinking about the role that food plays in both th…