Avoiding extinction. What can we do?
Powerful new documentary now on Prime & YouTube
SOS #126 J. Morris Hicks (10-5-21)
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For almost ten years, I have been steadily broadcasting -- in books, SOS Memos and public appearances -- that to have any chance at surviving long-term as a species, we must STOP EATING ANIMALS very soon!
With each passing year, I am more sure of that fact.
That means moving urgently in the direction of 100% plant-based eating. So far, it's not happening anywhere on Earth and we are rapidly running out of time.
While many in the developed world are eating less meat, there are more people in other parts of the world who are eating meat for the first time -- as the global consumption of animal-based foods continues to rise sharply.
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But, there is some good news. A powerful new film (82 minutes) that premiered in theaters last month is now available on various streaming platforms, as you can see below.
I bought it yesterday for $10 on Prime Video and, for our future as a species, I recommend it to everyone in the world (available in many languages).
This new film has come along at just the right time -- with just the right information -- about our horrifying future. We must think about the future of all of the world's innocent children and -- we must all stop eating animals ASAP!
Click on the image below to watch a free, 19-minute session with Klaus Mitchell, of Plant-Based News, and the producers of this daring new film that is now available on YouTube, Prime Video and other streaming services.
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Yesterday, after watching the film twice, I decided to take a few hours and summarize our overarching problem in this world with 195 countries and thousands of religions. |
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Our Primary Problem is This:
No one in authority, anywhere in the world, is saying much, if anything, about the ongoing extinction of humanity.
No one in authority is telling us exactly what must we must do in order to survive. Why aren't they?
Because it wouldn't be good for business
Even young Greta Thunberg (vegan herself) -- one of the loudest "sustainability" voices in the world -- is not saying much about the crucial urgency of moving immediately to plant-based eating.
I am a big fan of Greta but I do wish that she would speak more like our "house is on fire" with regard to our food choices. After all, it is the only powerful step that all people of all ages can take immediately.
Here is her latest message from Italy -- at a tune-up event for COP26 next month in Scotland. This video from last week has quickly become known as her "blah, blah, blah" message to the world's leaders.
Click image to watch this fiery 4-minute video
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Back to our world leaders. It seems that they are all content with simply "kicking the can down the road" when it comes to taking the urgent steps necessary to prevent the extinction of humanity.
Not a single country is taking the urgent action described in this SOS Memo. Consider our situation as described in this paragraph.
Not a single country has a realistic plan for how they are going to transform their way of living into one that obeys the laws of nature. I describe all their actions, including those of the USA -- as "willy-nilly" efforts that collectively have zero chance of reversing our trajectory toward a collapse of civilization well before 2100.
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What do I mean by willy-nilly? Here's the Webster definition: without direction or planning, haphazardly. Two points about that process in the USA1.
- We're spending trillions replacing infrastructure with no "green plan" in place for the USA -- much less for the planet.
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We're spending enormous amounts of money in the "spirit" of fighting climate change, but as pointed out in last week's SOS Memo, we continually fail to even mention its #1 cause -- much less focus most of our efforts and $$$ on eliminating that cause.
Our "Killing Machine" pictured below continues to KILL our remaining forests around the world -- to free up land to grow food for animals that it will then brutally KILL for our dinner tables.
When will this madness end? When enough individual citizens come to their senses and say NO MORE!
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As for our madness. Hypothetically, imagine that a scouting team of aliens are observing life on planet Earth. No doubt those visiting aliens are far superior to us in terms of intelligence and knowledge -- so you can just imagine what they might be saying to each other about us Earthlings:
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Look at those human beings (Homo sapiens) down there. They think they're the wisest creatures who ever lived -- but yet they're busily going about the process of destroying the most-perfect planet in the universe.
They have a total of 195 so-called countries, none of which are seriously engaged in protecting the ecosystem that gives them life.
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The only thing they all seem to have in common is something they call GREED, an attitude of recklessly grabbing whatever you can, for as long as you can, from nature and from each other.
The question for us is this. Do we annihilate them now? Or do we just return here to claim this planet for ourselves in about 75 years -- when those stupid Earthlings will have driven themselves extinct?
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So, exactly what is our PLAN?
The simple answer is that
we Earthlings have no "big picture" plan.
In the United States, for example, we're spending hundreds of billions of dollars on hurricane relief in the same areas where we know there will be many future storms along with permanently rising sea levels.
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The Bottom Line. We must launch the conversation about the perils of "willy-nilly" planet stewardship with the world's most influential people. We must eventually have a globally-coordinated plan that will maximize our chances for survival.
Meanwhile, we must address the elephant in the room NOW! The elephant, by the way, is our love affair with animal-based foods.
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If enough individuals destroy that elephant soon enough, we may buy ourselves enough time for the world's 195 countries to develop and begin executing an ultra-green survival plan for the entire planet.
We must be planning our future with a full understanding of the absolute necessity of the complete elimination of animal agriculture.
Getting that done is an extremely difficult step -- but fortunately, we don't need a global collaboration of many countries to get this done. We just need for enough individuals around the world to take action now.
Sadly, if we proceed much longer without addressing that elephant in the room, my sincere conclusion is that we will have a near zero chance for survival as a species.
- Note: Even WITH the complete replacement of animal agriculture around the world within the next ten years, there is still no guarantee that we will survive longterm as a species.
But at least we will have given ourselves the best possible chance -- and the children of the world deserve no less. So, how are we doing?
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Sadly, we are failing miserably!
- Our leaders are NOT telling the world about the leading cause of climate change -- AND they are NOT taking urgent steps to eliminate that cause.
- Hopefully something good will happen next month at the COP 26 in Glasgow, Scotland
- Several of my enlightened friends & colleagues will be there and will be making as much noise as they possibly can.
Hopefully, they will make enough noise to attract the attention of the many powerful world leaders who will be in attendance.
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In case you want to refer back to some of the data in this memo, here are four links that you might want to keep handy:
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What can you do? For starters, you can buy that new movie -- Eating our way to Extinction -- and watch it several times with your friends and family.
Also, you can:
- Share this SOS Memo with everyone you know.
- Inform all the young people in your world that you are deadly serious about this topic.
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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 you take the above step, 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 "conversations" expressed in this SOS Memo will soon replace the trivial topics that dominate a ridiculously large percentage of all of the conversations in the world.
We must all start talking a whole lot more about what's really important: 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 friends via Zoom. To help you jump-start that all-important conversation with your group, I will be happy to present and discuss this topic. Here's an advance link to my 62 slides.
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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.
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.
J. Morris (Jim) Hicks
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PS: Regarding the free Zoom conferences with your group, Send me an email and let's get started.
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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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As always, I am just trying to help spark the all-important "conversation" about what is needed. By sharing a vision of what I believe is possible, I hope to influence others to think bigger, faster, better and bolder.
You will find that there aren't many books that cover both the health of your body and the health of your planet. This is one of them -- a book that my son Jason assisted me in writing. It was published ten years ago this month.
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What else can you do to help? Two things:
1. Live as greenly as possible while doing all that you can to raise the awareness of "big picture" solutions that are crucially necessary for saving our civilization.
2. Share this BSB and my "Mama Ain't Happy" BSB with prominent journalists, thought leaders and/or elected officials whom you respect. They need to learn a lot more about the many reasons why Mama ain't happy.
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