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For anyone feeling helpless about the current environmental crisis, I have great news. In a few hours of television entertainment, you can educate yourself about how our simple everyday decisions have enormous and escalating impacts on the health of this planet. I recommend Eating Our Way to Extinction, Cowspiracy and Seaspiracy as great options to start with. These films present difficult information about the health and future of our planet. However, they also offer insight into how changing a few of our individual choices can dramatically reduce and even reverse the ongoing environmental destruction around the globe. By simply not doing something, or doing less of it, your actions can have significant impacts.
These films highlight that animal agriculture is by far the largest contributor to climate change, far surpassing transportation and fossil fuels. They document the unsustainable nature of the meat, dairy and seafood industries and their effects on water consumption, deforestation, species extinction and climate change. It is possible that there are similar documentaries about how the meat and fish industries are better for the environment, but I have not found those yet.
Many people who consume meat are uneasy or dismissive about the idea of becoming plant-based eaters and are often equally passionate about their choices and reasons for eating meat. The documentaries Forks…
