Capable Women vs. Feckless Men
re the #1 Driver of Climate Change
What's wrong? What can be done? Who can do the job?
SOS #176 -- J. Morris Hicks -- (9-20-22)
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It's like we're on a sinking ship and none of the officers even seem to be aware of the #1 problem: a giant gaping hole below the waterline on the starboard side.
Whatever members of Titanic crew might be doing other than working on that hole in the hull -- is certain to prove no more beneficial to the chances of survival of the passengers than the legendary rearrangement of those infamous deck chairs.
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That situation was similar to what is happening to all of humanity now -- as our most famous "environmental leaders" are no more than a distraction when it comes to the necessity of completely disabling the all-important #1 driver of climate change. Their focus on a broad array of other human-induced drivers of climate change is doing far more harm than good.
All seven of the well-known men listed below are guilty and feckless when it comes to the integrity and courage necessary to take the appropriate actions that, in the beginning, would not be popular regarding our food choices.
So what's it going to take to save us now? According to this James Lovelock quote from early in the 21st century -- taking the necessary steps to prevent the extinction of our species should be a fairly simple proposition. Simple, but not easy.
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If the Earth improves as a result of our presence, then we will flourish. If it doesn’t, then we will die off.
A few years later, after acknowledging that humanity was failing miserably when it comes to the improvement of the natural world because of our presence, he had more to say in 2011, at age 91:
My main reason for not relaxing into contented retirement is that like most of you, I am deeply concerned about the probability of massively harmful climate change and the need to do something about it now.
Sadly, we haven't really done much about climate change since Lovelock made that statement. And we won't hear from him again as he passed away in July on his 103rd birthday.
Our primary problem is a serious lack of strong leadership by individuals with integrity -- leaders who are willing to share the total truth about climate change -- even if such truthfulness lessens their near-term popularity.
Sadly, we have few, if any, well-known, courageous leaders in the world of climate change today. We have disingenuous, self-serving weaklings like Al Gore and John Kerry pictured here in a NY Times article last week.
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To be fair, former VP Gore and Special Presidential Climate Envoy John Kerry are not the only famous environmentalists who refuse to tell the world exactly what we must do to survive the worst effects of runaway climate change.
My friend, Glen Merzer called out two more of them on the cover of his 2021 book in this subtitle that appears just below the title: FOOD IS CLIMATE:
A Response to Al Gore, Bill Gates & Paul Hawken
and the Conventional Narrative on Climate Change
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Here's a brief excerpt from the book's foreword that was written by the great Australian, Philip Wollen,
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Welcome to the Greatest Scam on Earth:
Taxpayer funded animal agriculture. The Animal Industrial Complex is expert at getting others to pick up the tab for their crimes.
But its rap sheet is gradually being exposed: horrendous animal cruelty, massive greenhouse gas emissions, zoonotic pandemic diseases, deforestation, ocean acidification, profligate water wastage, damage to human health, busted economies and irreparable healthcare deficits.
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The Bottom Line
Feckless men are leading us quickly to the brink of extinction -- by failing to be transparent regarding the leading driver of climate change AND their failure to model sustainable eating themselves.
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"encourages" his countrymen to eat "less meat & dairy."
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Virtually all elected leaders, famous environmentalists and newly crowned kings are following the conventional narrative on climate change. That narrative suggests that if we can just power all of civilization with renewable energy -- that we will survive and thrive in the long run.
In a word, that is simply BULLSHIT!
Again, here are those three questions:
What's wrong? What can we do? Who can get it done?
What's wrong? We're in the latter stages of runaway climate change -- and we're doing almost nothing about the first three of the four major drivers: over-population, over-consumption, eating the wrong food for our species and burning fossil fuels.
Only one of the above drivers could be completely eliminated in less than ten years. But, we just can't seem to think about giving up our favorite foods -- like this Full English Breakfast that features three hefty portions of animal-based food: two eggs, two sausages and two strips of bacon.
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What can we do? We are a great distance away from living our lives in such a manner that causes the natural world to improve because of our presence, as recommended by James Lovelock. And we're going to need many decades, if not centuries, to learn how to accomplish that goal.
But, there is one major step we can take quickly. Changing to the natural diet for our species just might buy us enough time to reinvent ALL of our unsustainable behaviors listed earlier. If we don't pick this "low hanging fruit" in the near future, this data-driven engineer doubts that Homo sapiens will survive another forty years.
Who can get it done? Since these seven "sustainability leaders” -- King Charles, President Joe Biden, Al Gore, Bill McKibben, John Kerry, Bill Gates and Paul Hawken -- all lack the BALLS to tell the unadulterated truth to the world -- maybe it's time for a group of ultra-capable women to take the reins in the most important battle in the history of humanity.
Maybe it's time for us to forget the feckless men who are pretending to be environmentalists and turn to these two courageous, sustainable-living superstars, along with a few others -- who DO possess the critically important knowledge, integrity and passion that all of those men lack.
Greta Thunberg (19) & Jane Goodall (88)
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These two exceptional women are not afraid of taking a highly unpopular stand on food choices when it comes to giving us the best possible chance of disabling the leading driver of climate change and saving all of humanity.
Greta and Jane are highly capable of getting the job done quickly and easily -- without spending a penny! Next week, you will hear more about another seven internationally respected women and what they are all capable of accomplishing together.
Women Rock! Hear them Roar!
as they start taking decisive steps to save the world's
children -- without fear of a temporary loss in popularity.
In closing, as stated last week, this SOS Memo is the first in my new series of more-concise messages that take less than six minutes to read.
One more thing. When I write about this topic, people generally seem to be overwhelmed with my reporting that animal agriculture contributes more to climate change than all other drivers combined. Just this morning, I spoke at length to the co-author of the first major study on that topic. A 33-year veteran with the World Bank Group in Washington, DC, he is an environmental analyst.
Click on the image below to read the entire paper that was published on WorldWatch in 2009. The meticulous World Bank Group authors concluded that the global animal agriculture industry accounts for at least 51% of all global green-house gas emissions. I have known the sole surviving author since 2014 and spoke with him this morning for almost a half hour. After that conversation, I am even more confident now that if they erred in their conclusions, they erred on the side of under-estimating animal agriculture's damage when it comes to promoting climate change.
In other words, things are likely much worse now than when their paper was published in 2009. Thankfully, the solution to ending our worst nightmare is a rapid, planet-wide shift to plant-based eating. Working together, we can all kill this monster with our forks.
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So, how did we do? Did you finish reading this one in less than six minutes? |
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Although these newly designed, more compact, SOS Memos will continue be fairly short and more entertaining, we will continue to provide tons of FREE data & "big picture" reference material at the end of each one of them, beginning with free access to our two latest books. After the books below...scroll on down to the:
"Big Picture" Data and Video Section
In closing, do you want to do your part to help people get healthy...while slowing, stopping or even reversing climate change at the same time? Then, share this SOS Memo and the free books below with everyone you know.
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FREE: Two "Big Picture" Books
Our health, our planet and climate change
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To our knowledge, OUTCRY is the only book ever published that features a summary of "outcries" from the natural world, along with consensus conclusions of nine big picture scientists regarding our dilemma — AND an envisioned sustainable civilization of the future -- using today’s technology. |
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A few weeks ago, we began giving this book away free of charge. Just click on this OUTCRY image and start reading.
We decided to start giving it away because, as Jeremy Rifkin said early in this recent 15-minute video that was moderated by Kate Winslet, "the most important info in all of humanity is going undiscussed."
We're talking about the crucial information regarding how we can possibly slow or stop climate change within a few years.
Want to help relieve the desperate situation in which we find ourselves, read OUTCRY as soon as you can and send it to everyone you know. Just click on the book cover above.
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Here is another book that we recently began offering FREE to the world public: the 4Leaf Guide that I published with Dr. Kerry Graff in 2015.
This two-hour read is still highly relevant, focusing on helping people take charge of their health and reverse chronic disease by urgently shifting to a whole-food, plant-based way of eating.
A fringe benefit of their efforts is the steady downsizing of the leading driver of climate change: animal agriculture. Merely suggesting that the masses cut back on their meat/diary/egg/fish consumption will accomplish very little.
We want them to completely eliminate all animal-based foods from their diet. Yes, that included cheese, eggs and all forms of seafood.
For your children and grandchildren, just do it!
Please share today's timely SOS with everyone.
Click the image below to hear my recent (May 2022)
45-minute talk regarding much of what has been covered in my recent SOS Memos.
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Finally, please contact me about arranging a FREE "live" Zoom talk for your group. They will get a lot more out of my talk if they have read our two FREE books in advance of my talk.
Sincerely, J. Morris (Jim) Hicks
PS: Scroll on down for more "big picture" information that is mainly in the form of powerful videos, most of which are free.
For a concise summary of "big picture" information about our situation, take a look at the landing page of my primary website that I recently updated. Just click hpjmh.com
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What about the "preservation" of civilization? |
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To clarify, we're not trying to preserve civilization as we know it. Because what we have now is extremely wasteful, harmful and grossly unsustainable. It's an incredibly reckless way of living that is now threatening our very existence as a species.
We're talking about replacing it with an entirely new, ultra-green civilization of the future -- and we do our best to paint a picture of that envisioned way of sustainable living in OUTCRY. For what one Ohio State professor emeritus of history had to say about that book on Amazon, click here.
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As for making our stand on the only planet in the universe capable of keeping us alive, this "Big Picture" section below will provide you with handy reference materials on this most crucial of all topics. |
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"Big Picture" Data and Video Section
Beginning with the timeline of research
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Five World-Changing Films
That People Everywhere Must See
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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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Grasping the "Big Picture"
These 2 films will help in understanding
our unprecedented dilemma.
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This 83-minute documentary is all about the findings that were documented in Dr. Stephen Emmott's 2013 book. TEN BILLION.
He brilliantly describes the grossly unsustainable way of living that has brought us to the emergency situation in which we find ourselves. Since I met him in London in 2013, he has become much more serious about the need to abolish the practice of eating meat, dairy, eggs and/or fish at almost every meal.
Just click on the hourglass image. Dr. Emmott delivers a very compelling message from the stage of a theater in London. This 2013 film is still relevant and will certainly help more people grasp that all-important "big picture."
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Finally, this half-hour video 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.
As do practically all researchers, Dowd focuses entirely on the problem; not the solution. I prefer to focus on both.
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What else can you do?
Probably a lot more than you think
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Start with the new documentary (Film #4) mentioned earlier -- Eating our way to Extinction for $6 on Netflix. Watch it often with your friends and family.
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Share this SOS Memo widely: Certainties, Uncertainties & Priorities by J. Morris Hicks.
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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.
- 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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I am confident that if a few million people carefully read and digested this book that there would be a more robust conversation around the world regarding our grossly unsustainable way of living in the developed world.
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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The links below to earlier SOS Memos will help you understand how these ideas unfolded since 2018. |
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