This SOS Memo is coming to you from Glacier National Park where all of the glaciers have been melting like crazy for the last 100 years. I learned at the park yesterday that they are expecting, due to rapidly escalating climate change, that ALL of the glaciers will be completely gone by 2030.

I did not take the above picture, but it looks very similar to the scenery that we enjoyed yesterday. Sadly, no one at Glacier National Park, or anywhere else, is even talking about the leading driver of climate change -- much less, doing something about it.

All civilizations before the one in which we are living, have collapsed. We are part of the first ever global civilization and are well on our way to joining the fate of all preceding civilizations.

Many are predicting a total collapse well before 2100 and a growing number are predicting a collapse prior to 2030. What will it take to wake us up to the obvious?

As covered extensively below, a genuine effort to clear up all the confusion and conflicts of interest re climate change would be a great place to start. But that is not happening.

In this video that appears in the "Big Picture" Data Section below, Michael Dowd expertly describes Collapse in a Nutshell -- Understanding our Predicament.

To be sure, for us to even have a chance to extend our own civilization indefinitely, we must eliminate the #1 driver of climate change before 2030. And with enough knowledge and leadership, that is entirely possible -- beginning with an urgent shift to plant-based eating all over the world.

As we all know, and as the NYT article below describes, we are a very long way from even thinking about such a move as we continue our horribly wasteful modern lifestyles while adding over six million new mouths to feed every month.

After reading a NYTimes piece last month, I concluded that it's not surprising that we are getting nowhere when it comes to fighting climate change. Apparently, most citizens only worry about climate change when there are no other problems for them to face.

Here's a link to that July 17 piece, followed by some of the text:

How bad is it? From the piece: The evidence that a climate crisis is well underway appears to be everywhere: the Great Salt Lake in Utah drying up, severe weather regularly imperiling the electric grid in Texas, wildfires scorching the drought-plagued West, “climate refugees” seeking higher land in Louisiana and tidal floods swamping the streets of Miami.

How important is the issue? Not very, according to recent polls. From the piece:

Just 1 percent of voters in a recent New York Times/Siena College poll named climate change as the most important issue facing the country, far behind worries about inflation and the economy. Even among voters under 30, the group thought to be most energized by the issue, that figure was 3 percent.

The article went on to quote one Republican House member from South Florida:

They are failing to tell us these important truths about the largest driver of climate change and what we can do about it. They are failing to encourage all citizens in the developed world -- to join forces and quickly eliminate the leading driver.

So, what's the problem? Why are our leaders not urgently telling us these facts? It's because of money, power and getting re-elected. Read on...

This chart from the EPA is suggesting that agriculture is a relatively minor driver of greenhouse gas emissions in the USA.

Out of five economic sectors, the "agriculture" category seems to be responsible for just 11% of the problem.

Clearly, anyone looking at this chart will conclude that agriculture is the least of our worries. After all, we do have to eat, right?

As for the categories, we have to keep commuting to work everyday and using electricity to heat or cool our homes and keep the lights on. Not much we can do about that category, right?

Obviously, the average citizen in the USA can't to a darn thing about the other two categories: Commercial/Residential and Industry.

So, when you look at the numbers, it's really no surprise that:

Let's face it, the average citizen is not going be worried about something that they can do nothing about. But, pictured below is a fairly new factoid that might get their attention.

And Dr. Sailesh Rao explains it very clearly in this six-minute video. Just click on this image to watch it.

That factoid about 87% of climate change being driven by animal agriculture is fully explained by Dr. Sailesh Rao in the six minute video above. Here's a link to his 2019 peer-reviewed

paper in which he concluded that animal agriculture is responsible for a whopping 87% of human-induced climate change.

So you may be asking yourself, "How can that be, given the information in that EPA chart above?" As Dr. Rao explains above, the situation behind all the confusion might best be described as "the fox guarding the henhouse."

Notice the information below about the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Just below the blue banner is the acronym LEAP and the key word in the phrase next to that word is "Partnership."

The FAO has partners whose livelihoods depend on the continuation of the mighty animal agriculture industry. Read on.

Normally, average Americans are inclined to believe most information that we receive from the United Nations and the EPA. I used to be one of those trusting Americans -- but that was before I learned the truth about the primary driver of climate change.

One of the dirty little truths that I learned in just the past few years is the fact that those "partners" that are down-playing the significance of animal agriculture are a group of organizations with skin in the game.

Talking about a conflict of interest!! Do yourself a favor and watch the six minute video above -- as Dr. Sailesh Rao calmly explains this disgusting situation.

In that video, he talks about those five "partners" within the LEAP group who are expected to tell us the truth about the impact of animal agriculture on climate change. Do you really think they will tell us the unadulterated truth about animal-based foods that would jeopardize their entire industry?

The main problem, as I see it, is that there are very few people in the developed world who want to learn about the dirty little secrets behind their favorite foods.

I began discovering those truths, by accident, almost twenty years ago and switched 100% to plant-based eating within just a few months. Since then, I have made it my life's mission to do all that I can to help people everywhere learn the truth about taking charge of their health, saving money and weakening the leading driver of climate change -- all at the same time.

Since 2011, I have published three books and thousands of blogs and SOS Memos like this one. Thankfully, I was successful in helping my two adult children learn, and embrace, the health-promoting power of eating mostly whole, plant-based foods -- for themselves and for their families.

Sadly, I don't think that my twenty years of work in this field has made much of a difference.

Now, we're running out of time. At this point, I think it will take some kind of global disaster to convince our world leaders of the severity of the environmental situation in which we find ourselves.

As for that situation, I encourage you to take a look at this piece that was in The Guardian last week: Soon it will be unrecognizable: total climate meltdown cannot be stopped.

The author of that piece, Professor Bill McGuire, also wrote the book pictured above that was just published last week.

As you may know, I have recently started giving away two of my books that will help people understand just what's at stake when it comes to our food choices.

The second book, that I co-authored with a family physician will help people make that crucial dietary switch.

To our knowledge, OUTCRY is the only book ever published that features a summary of "outcries" from the natural world, consensus conclusions of nine “big picture scientists" about our dilemma — AND an envisioned sustainable civilization of the future -- using today’s technology.

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.

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.

It is #173 on this list of all of my SOS Memos.

Don't have time to watch the entire Honolulu video? Click here to view all 60 slides in that talk

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For a concise summary of "big picture" information about our situation, take a look at the landing page of my primary website that I updated this week. Just click hpjmh.com

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.

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.

Also on Netflix, Kip and Keegan teamed up again in 2017 to produce What the Health, which is also on Netflix. It runs 92 minutes and may be the best documentary ever that focuses on the health reasons for choosing to eat plant-based. Click here to watch the short trailer. You can also watch the full movie for free on Vimeo.

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.

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.

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

This 83-minute documentary is all about the findings that were documented in Dr. Stephen Emmott's 2013 book. TEN BILLION.

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.

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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