An "Inconvenient Truth" about Al Gore
and scores of other well-known "environmentalists"
SOS #151 -- J. Morris Hicks -- (3-29-22)
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The most inconvenient of all truths is that the best known and most respected "environmentalists" of our day -- notables like Al Gore, Bill Gates and Paul Hawken have not been telling us the whole truth the world must understand -- and act upon -- if we're going to have a snowball's chance in hell of surviving. |
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You may remember Mr. Gore's 2006 film, "An Inconvenient Truth." It is the film that earned him the highly regarded image of being the world's most famous environmentalist.
Shortly after that movie first aired, my friend and colleague, Dr. Sailesh Rao, joined a host of others who went to work for Mr. Gore in an effort to leverage the world acclaim from the movie -- to help guide humanity back on the path to sustainable living.
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Sixteen Years Wasted -- Al Gore
He's had the megaphone for far too long!
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Fast forward three years to August of 2009. Dr. Rao was joined by 71 co-members of that original Gore team in 2006 -- all of whom were in agreement that they were not properly sharing the truth to the entire world about the single most powerful driver of climate change. |
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They all signed Dr. Rao's letter to Mr. Gore -- a letter imploring him to begin calling out the animal-based food industry as being the leading single driver of climate change:
Click this image to view Dr. Rao's 2019 peer-reviewed position paper. Below is his letter to Mr. Gore ten years earlier in 2009. This letter is abbreviated; you can see all three complete letters to and from Mr. Gore at SOS Memo #142 distributed on 1-25-22.
August 11, 2009
Dear Mr. Gore,
We are Climate Project presenters who have worked to convey the urgency of the climate crisis for nearly three years. As we portray this crisis as a planetary emergency, however, we find it increasingly difficult to ignore the impacts of the Western diet on the state of our planet – in particular, the climate impacts of eating beef and other meats.
We strongly believe that your public stand on meat consumption, in conjunction with Dr. Pachauri's (UN IPCC Chair) forceful stand, would truly be world-changing. Please count on our unflagging support in taking such a courageous step.
Respectfully yours, Dr. Sailesh Rao + 71 co-signees
(Climate Project Presenters)
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Mr. Gore responded with a highly disappointing message the following month, acknowledging that he heard them but that he did not agree to begin stressing the singular importance of our food choices. Near the end of his message, he wrote:
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"While I've spent most of my energies focused on other aspects of alleviating the crisis (e.g. reducing fossil fuel consumption), I'm not unaware of the impacts of eating meat, and indeed mentioned the importance of eating less meat in An Inconvenient Truth."
That was thirteen years ago -- and Gore has still not begun loudly talking about the absolute necessity that we humans begin walking away from eating all animal-based foods just as soon as possible.
Sailesh's group of 72 sent another message to Gore in 2012 -- a letter that went unanswered. You can read the details of this entire saga in my SOS Memo #142 that was distributed in January of 2022.
We no longer expect any help whatsoever from Mr. Gore but, if others on the slide below take on the leadership role on this crucial project, he may slither back onto the team eventually. But, we are quite sure that he will never lead it.
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In late March of 2022, I feel that we can make progress on two possible fronts.
First Possibility. A well-known leader like Mayor Eric Adams in NYC or Apple CEO Tim Cook steps up to the challenge of taking this crucial message to the entire world. In the near term it is more likely that Mayor Adams would take on this challenge as compared to Tim Cook at Apple.
As for Mayor Adams, since he was elected, I have posted ten SOS Memos as a way of gently nudging him into the most crucial process in the history of humanity. I have formally applied for a position in his administration and his assistant is reading these memos. Stay tuned.
Since mid-November of 2021, here are the ten SOS Memos in which the mayor is mentioned:
The most powerful SOS Memo is #6 and the most-entertaining is the hilarious SNL skit pictured here in the #9 memo :
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Second Possibility. We all do our best to start a groundswell of interest from individuals all over the world -- driven by an interest that could be led by thousands, if not millions of people -- from all walks of life.
You can be a part of that group -- a concerned citizen of planet Earth who can start by spending a grand total of seven hours watching all five of these films below.
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Five Must-See Films
For our health. For the future of our children.
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Since An Inconvenient Truth aired sixteen years ago, it has become obvious that we're not going to learn the horrible truth about our food choices from the likes of Al Gore, John Kerry, President Joe Biden -- or from the Food and Agricultural Organization of the U.N.
But you can learn the truth from these five films. In just over seven hours, you and your family can watch these films and will soon know more about promoting environmental and human health than any of the world's most powerful leaders.
Even if all of them fully understood all of these truths. I doubt seriously that any of them would take any urgent action to get that news to all of the world's citizens.
All of those so-called global leaders are worried about the global economy. We are worried about the future of our children.
Watch these five films soon and share them with everyone you know. They will remain in the "FREE "Big Picture Data and Info Section" at the end of my SOS Memos indefinitely.
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Film #1 in 2014
In 2014, Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn produced their first documentary film Cowspiracy. Executive producer is Leonardo DiCaprio, it runs 90 minutes and has been on Netflix since 2015. In 2020, I met Kip and Keegan in Sedona where I was honored to be able to speak at the same conference with them and other great leaders in this movement like Dr. Sailesh Rao and Dr. Michael Greger. |
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Film #3 in 2021
In 2021, Kip Anderson teamed up with British filmmaker Ali Tabrizi, to produce Seaspiracy, an 89-minute film that vividly and alarmingly reveals what is at stake when it comes to the crucial importance of our oceans to our future as a species. Most people have no idea regarding the environmental horrors of commercial fishing -- a disgusting industry that kills dolphins by the thousands and tosses them back into the ocean. It runs 90 minutes on Netflix. Click here to view the trailer.
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Film #4 in 2021
As our situation becomes more desperate, the documentary films become more terrifying. As alluded to earlier, we are literally Eating Our Way to Extinction, a process that is vividly covered in this 2021 film (81 minutes). Narrated and produced by Kate Winslet, you can watch this great film on Amazon Prime or on YouTube for $3.99. The great ocean scientist and former head of NOAA, Dr. Sylvia Earle lends powerful credibility to such a crucial topic. |
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Film #5 in 2022
This new film (89 minutes) features a young activist who travels around his country, New Zealand in an effort to find out the truth about the horrors of the dairy industry in his native land. The film uncovers alarming information about the environmental and health impacts of the industry -- leading up to the discovery that we are on the edge of the biggest global disruption of food and agriculture in history. This new film is now available for free at waterbear.com
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The Bottom Line
We cannot wait for "famous" leaders any longer!
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It's time for you to do some homework, watch some videos, share them with your friends -- and ask me to conduct free Zoom calls with your various groups.
We cannot depend on the so-called leaders out there -- the ones who have failed us for far too long already. It's time for all of us citizens to take some responsibility for where we are and where we're going. I stand ready to help you.
J. Morris (Jim) Hicks
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PS: To clarify, we're not trying to preserve "civilization as we know it." Because it is an extremely wasteful and harmful civilization that is now threatening our very existence as a species.
The section below will provide you with an abundance of handy reference materials on this most crucial of all topics.
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"Big Picture"
Data and Info Section
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This section has been appearing at the end of my weekly SOS Memos for months. It contains links to relevant information that form the foundation of what our options appear to be for responding quickly and appropriately to our global crises.
In order to respond appropriately, we must first grasp the all-important "big picture" regarding how we got to where we are in the first place. The various links below will help you do that.
Next is a half-hour video that was published in November of 2021. It was produced by Michael Dowd, a non-scientific researcher like me who does a very fine job of explaining the many facets of the obstacles standing between us and our survival as a species.
Dowd has a pretty good handle on most things, but he seems to be unaware of the simple weapon that we can all use to fight the leading driver of climate change. Our forks.
That said, he does a terrific job of describing our ever-worsening dilemma. Click the link below to view this very informative 33-minute video, published November 15, 2021.
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This next item is a free 83-minute documentary film that is all about the findings that were documented in Dr. Stephen Emmott's 2013 book. TEN BILLION. |
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This powerful film will certainly help more people grasp that all-important "big picture." Just click on the hourglass image.
I will continue sharing this TEN BILLION link in future weekly SOS Memos
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More Data re Leading Driver of Climate Change.
Beginning in September of 2021, I have been including links to world-changing scientific information that thought leaders everywhere should read and and share with others.
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What can you do? For starters, you can buy the new documentary -- Eating our way to Extinction for $6 on Netflix -- and watch it often with your friends and family.
Also, you can:
- Share this SOS Memo with everyone you know.
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Get an e-copy of OUTCRY. Visit Outcry page on Amazon and get a much bigger understanding of the situation in which all humans find ourselves.
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Inform all the young people in your world that you are deadly serious about this topic. Urge them to read these SOS Memos and our latest book, OUTCRY.
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- Completely stop eating meat, dairy, eggs and fish today and tell everyone why you are taking such a "radical" step. You're doing it for the innocent children of the world.
- As noted above, do yourself a favor and make sure that your plant-based meals of the future consist of whole plants -- the kinds of foods that prevent or reverse most chronic diseases AND enable your body to effortlessly seek its optimal weight.
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A final word. Hopefully, the kind of crucially serious situations expressed in these SOS Memos will soon replace meaningless and trivial topics that dominate a ridiculously large percentage of all of the conversations in the world.
We must all start talking much more about what's really important. That is , we must start doing everything possible to maximize the chances of a meaningful and pleasant life ahead for the young people of the world.
I volunteer to help you do that. For Free. Invite me to collaborate with you and your group via Zoom. To help you jump-start that all-important conversation, I will be happy to present and discuss this topic at length. Here's an advance link to my standard presentation: 65 slides.
Click on the image below to view the slides that I am currently using for those kinds of sessions:
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The image above is a clue regarding the essence of my "family game plan" that is revealed only in my talks. I do not put that in writing.
Want to share some of my SOS Memos with others? Visit my SOS Memos page where the most recent ones are listed first.
Finally, I am confident that if a few million people carefully read and digested OUTCRY, that there might at least be a more robust conversation taking place about our grossly unsustainable way of living in the developed world -- and what it will take to get us focused on maximizing our chances of survival as a species.
To be sure, we must do a lot more than change what we eat -- and OUTCRY helps explain the "why" and the "how" of that proposition.
To my knowledge, OUTCRY remains the only book ever published that features an envisioned, totally-green, ultra-sustainable, super-desirable, future way of living for humans -- along with ideas for how we might get there as quickly as possible.
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Regarding the free Zoom conferences with your group,
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Our book, for a host of environmental reasons, is only available as an e-book on Amazon. As such, it contains hyperlinks to hundreds of references and videos, is less expensive, does not kill any trees and does not have to be manufactured and delivered.
The links below to earlier SOS Memos will help you understand how these ideas unfolded since 2018.
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One more thing. I first started learning about the supreme importance of our food choices in 2002. After studying the topic for eight years and getting to know many of the medical and ecological experts in the field, I co-authored the book below with my son Jason.
You can find it on Amazon in all formats by clicking on the image below:
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