- Hi, I'm Klaus. With the extreme weather patterns we're all seeing around the world, I think it's fair to say
that the climate crisis is no longer a future doomsday mentality, it's happening right now and we're all looking for solutions. Unfortunately, the solutions
we have been presented have been very specific and limited. 2022 told us that this old
story is destroying our planet. - It is a story that has taken us so close to the brink of an unimaginable crisis that our survival now depends
on us telling a new story. - [Klaus] This a new
story shines a spotlight on climate change and
other issues exacerbated by animal agriculture. Vegan 2022 connects the big issues and exposes how the primary driver of these issues has been suppressed. - Simply put, they are lying. - [Klaus] And that actually
one of the simplest, most significant things
we can do is in our hands. - Our global food system
is unequal, unsustainable, unhealthy, and destabilizing. But climate change is not
something to be ignored. - [Speaker 1] Unless we respond, there will be more of this and more often. - [Speaker 2] We're
looking at deforestation, ocean dead zones. - This is going to get worse and worse. - [Speaker 2] The use of antibiotics in animal product production, it's already killing 1.3
million people per year. - [Interviewer] Should we
go vegan to save the planet? - [Klaus] This film is produced in partnership with Wicked Kitchen, a chef-driven, plant-based brand that's crafting delicious
food for meat eaters and vegans alike. Sold in the
UK, US, Finland, and Thailand, they're on a mission to unleash
the mighty flavor of plants. The story begins in 2016 when the Paris Climate Agreement aimed to limit global warming
to two degrees celsius above pre-industrial levels
with a target of 1.5 degrees. - [Speaker 3] Even if
fossil fuel emissions were eliminated immediately, emissions from the
global food system alone would make it impossible to
limit warming to 1.5 degrees and difficult enough to
realize the target of 2%. - So we will exceed 1.5, probably two degrees, of global heating. Even if we totally
decarbonize all of this, all of the industrial economy
because we've left it so late. - If that's true, our
politicians should be telling us to change our eating habits. - Why are you in a meat
market when we're told to eat less meat to try and
cut down on carbon emissions? - No, I mean, I'm not telling
anyone to eat less meat. - Can I ask as new environment secretary, what are you doing in your own life to address climate concerns? - Well, I've always tried
to keep the good habits that I got into in regards to when I was a environment
minister before. So the use of kind of
cups as it were to be about permanent cups, but it's,
that we can recycle properly or reuse, I think is a
better way of doing it. - [Klaus] Despite what
our politicians tell us, research in 2022 confirmed
unless we dramatically shift away from animal agriculture, global temperatures would
spiral out of control. - Do you know how much of
the UK's land footprint is associated with animal agriculture? - No. - The calculation is
that if the cereals fed to animals were instead used
for direct human consumption, we could feed an extra 3.5
billion people every year. - It's clear that animal
agriculture is the biggest threat to our food sovereignty and
without that we lose everything. - Up till now, most businesses haven't been
including their emissions from the land sector in
their climate change targets when they're doing their accounting. - [Speaker 4] We use
about 4 billion hectares of land globally for food production. About 3 billion of those hectares are used for animal agriculture. So that's the size of China plus India times two plus Indonesia. And if we simply allow
to that land to rewild, natural carbon sequestration
gets you 26 gigatons of carbon sequestration annually. - [Klaus] Research confirmed
that once we shift away from animal agriculture,
we would free up 75% of agricultural land
with much of it returned to its natural state. - You have lots of animals, you have lots of feed, and often that feed comes from places where biodiverse rainforest used to stand. So the whole process of getting
to the animal that you have on your plate is just
environmentally intensive. - [Boudicca] I know that if we all had to eat a plant-based diet
would need much less land and could leave the trees alone. But hey, come on. - The reason that veganism is
being purported and propagated by the matrix is because they
don't want you to eat meat. They want you to eat vegetables. - Are you a vegan? Have you
ever considered being a vegan? - I've never considered being a vegan. - Because I don't want to try it.
I don't want to do Veganuary! - As TV debates divided
opinion throughout early 2022, the main theme of the year centered around the changing supply chain. Companies began working behind the scenes to reboot our food system. - Almost like the space race. - Yeah.
- Alternative protein. - It is.
- Yeah. - It's a space race you
don't know about yet. - Capitalism began finding
new ways to give consumers the things they love without
destroying our planet. - [Speaker 5] Alternative
proteins raised $5 billion in 2021, which nearly doubled the industry's investments to date. - I thought I was getting
tricked. This cannot be fake meat. You know, this has to be real meat. - That's not real sausage.
That is cardboard. This second one is
clearly the real sausage. I could taste the meat in it.
It was luscious and lovely. Tasted a bit like the
one I had this morning. - Has he correctly
identified the meat sausage? The answer is that the
meat sausage sandwich is actually down here, Mike. You've just eaten two vegan sandwiches. - [Klaus] And as 2022 played out, healthier whole food options also became increasingly available. - The oldest hospital in America has the first plant-based
unit where we are going to use reversal of diseases
thank to people like Dr. Kat. - He has demonstrated time and time again that type two diabetes can be reversed on a plant-based diet quickly and easily. - Recent studies shows more
plant-based food sources could help prevent heart disease. - I can guarantee that
if you go plant-based for at least three days, your
stomach will feel better, your digestive tract will definitely heal. - Within three weeks, the expectation is people
will feel so much better, their digestion is better,
their energy levels are better, less painful periods, on down
the list, such that by the end of three weeks their own body is telling them this is the way to eat. So it's no longer a doctor
wagging their finger in their face. But I mean, you don't know
how good you're gonna feel until you give it a try. - I'm 22 years older
than the average person who dies in this country, right. And it's simply because of what I eat. - Athletes debunk the myth around strength in a plant-based diet. As tennis Novak Djokovic won Wimbledon. Lewis Hamilton won
hundred Formula One titles and vegan power lifter, Sophia Ellis, made history breaking six records in the British Power
Lifting Championships. - [Sophia] Through me
just doing power lifting, I've actually helped way more
people get into veganism. - Plant-based organizations
began sponsoring sports teams around the world, including
in Tel Aviv, Israel, and Barcelona, Spain, as the lifestyle became
pop culture staple. - Oh, I'm a person that
is dabbling in the world of plant-based for quite some time. - I was raised vegetarian and I chose to stop eating all animal
products when I was 12. - I luckily have the help of amazing chefs that have figured out how to find the things that I really love and to make a plant-based version of that. - A few years ago the idea
of fast food chains catering to vegan customers might
have seemed unusual, but there's been a rise in the number of plant-based options available. - All of the food is plant-based, even the drinks are veggie based. Oh, it's calling my name. - Whether it's weight
loss or the environment or to improve heart and kidney health, vegan cuisine is growing in popularity. - One of these is made out of leather. One of these is made outta mushrooms. The average consumer can't
tell you the difference. That's kind of the whole point. - Lewis Hamilton has
long praised the impact the new diet has had on his dogs. But is it cruel to deny our
four-legged friends meat? - If you had to be a
cannibal, who would you eat? - Well, I'm vegan, so
it's even worse for me. - Vegan means you don't
eat or wear any animal products. I decided to be a vegan 'cause
I was sitting around one day and I thought to myself, I was like, man, I just got way too many
friends and how do I fix this? And so I decided... and it worked. No one wants to go out to eat anymore. They hate you and stuff. - But behind the humor
came more serious pundits who without any consideration for what the guests were saying,
wanted to derail veganism. - What the hell are they? Just put the bloke or
woman on his or her tractor and let them go and feed
the sheep or the cattle and take 'em to market. It's been known fine for centuries. - You're laughing there. Do you think gas chambers
are funny, Garth? - Little Joey, yeah, just
make me laugh honestly. You've got no idea. You've got no idea. - We have been farming
animals for hundreds of thousands of years. - Does it need to be
moralized in any way shape or should we, are we not just meant to eat the thing because it's food for us? - Those who prefer oat milk
to milk, almond milk to milk, tend to be palid, spotty, gaunt, anemic, ill, politically weird,
and get very little sex as a result of those things. - We are omnivores. Meat is part of our diet and I say if the environmental
problems sort those out and don't just sort of,
you know, turn us vegan, because you're going to end up with serious dietary
problems for many people. - [Klaus] But it was
events in the Netherlands that took center stage. City Harlem became the first in the world to ban meat ads in public. And in another world-leading move, the Dutch government unveiled plans to reduce livestock numbers by 30% in a bid to come climate change. - Thousands of Dutch farmers are rallying against the government on their tractors. - People are aware that
the climate is changing and that we need to step
up our collective efforts to make sure that we counter
that and that we mitigate it. - For a couple of years already, the government has announced
that nitrogen emissions have to be significantly reduced
and they are caused by intense farming. - But they're significant protests. We're talking about, you know, 30,000 people in the Netherlands. - But we will keep on farming. We will fight for our farms and we warning you all over Europe. This problem which is here in Holland can be your problem in the next years. - What the Dutch government
underestimated was the pushback that in spite of all of
the provisions created for farmers and financial support, what was underestimated
was the cultural element. As stated by Henry Dimbleby, a respected right wing voice in the UK, it's such a politicized area. It's one that people
globally don't want to hear. People don't like the idea
of reducing meat and dairy. - There's a broad sense
of frustration, anger, and even despair amongst
farmers at the moment. The majority of the
animals in this country are outside meat. They're outside meat. - No, they're not. The chickens are where? Where the chickens live, mate? They haven't been outside for
16 weeks 'cause of bird flu and 95% of them are factory farmed. These aren't even my stats.
Look 'em up yourself. - [Klaus] As one farmer confusingly said, I'm here for my future. I see my future falling apart. I get up at 5:00 AM every day for my cows. We're not just driving
around on a tractor. Another farmer said, if you
come for us and our families, you come at our soul. We're not asking farmers to
no longer live on their land. We're not asking them to move into cities and work in supermarkets or any of that. We're asking them to
keep living off the land, but do so in a better way for all of us. - Hello, my name's Lawrence and I'm a former dairy farmer who has now transitioned
to organic cereal growing. We simply have to reduce
the carbon footprint of all our diets. - It summed up the strange feeling of 2022 where there were examples
of transformation on every continent, including
celebrities coming out in support of vegan food. But they all seemed quite strange in the face of society's hypocrisy. - Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum. Which one's going in the oven first? - That is fine to eat meat and you're not a bad person for doing so. - You do know we're all vegan, right? - What? - [Player] Yeah, we're a vegan rugby club. - What do you mean you're
a vegan rugby club? - It shows that despite the
repeated calls to shift away from animal agriculture on
the basis of health, ethics, and the environment, a
catalyst was still needed. This is particularly urgent in 2022 given the climate crisis. - [Speaker 6] The global
food system looks very much like the global financial
system in the approach to 2008. And like the financial system, it seems to be losing its resilience. - It's been 40 degrees
in London, 40 degrees. It was so hot that birds fell out the sky, train tracks spontaneously combusted. In France they have to put out wildfires with liquid manure. In the North Pole, it was
27 degrees last month. - [Klaus] Amid the
warming, the deforestation, biodiversity loss, and
ocean acidification, the question was: how can
we transition society away from animal agriculture? Not just that are pace driven
by those in the climate and vegan fringes, but for
all of society in a way that will be scalable and realistic, allowing consumers to
have everything they enjoy before in terms of taste,
texture, and sensory pleasure, about the devastating
environmental implications. - What new technology
does is to lift the lid on the latent desire for change. We've seen this in the past. For instance, with modern
contraceptive techniques, which gave a huge boost
to feminist campaigns, but also with the printing press and the replacement of
parchment with paper, which enabled a massive
political flowering in Renaissance Europe. And we are about to see a
similar techno-ethical shift as meat eating becomes something which doesn't involve animals anymore. Suddenly, people will start to ask, well, why then are we subjecting animals and the living planet to
such horrendous treatment? Why are we still killing
76 billion animals a year when we don't have to to get the products that we want to eat? And as soon as something
becomes amendable, that is the moment when
it becomes intolerable. - It is time as George Mombio
has put it, for a new ethics, a 21st century morality,
a wider moral compass. We have to challenge everything. - As grassroots advocacy
gained legitimacy, change also came from the top. Kellogg's set up a dedicated
plant-based division. Nestle, largest freedom
beverage company in the world, announced it'll be releasing
an alternative protein to replace every single animal protein. And Burger King trialed
a 100% plant-based menu in a number of restaurants worldwide. - [Reporter] The Burger
King in Leicester Square, which is their flagship restaurant, has decided to go fully
plant-based vegan for a month. - [Speaker 7] To se these big
name restaurants embracing this really shows you what the future is. - One company is trying
to put the meat back in meat alternatives and some
investors are betting big. - [Klaus] Plant-based
products can grow estate in restaurants and supermarkets
throughout the year. Bioidentical precision
fermented dairy started to be sold in various countries, and news came out of
meat even made from air. - We grow our protein. We apply culinary techniques and then we create meat out of it. That's how we go from air
to meat. We make air meat. - You don't have to go and
take any cells from a cow. We know the amino acid sequence of all of the proteins in dairy. And from that amino acid
sequence you can work backward, transcribe that into a DNA
sequence and then then we take that DNA sequence and
insert it into the genome of the micro organism. - [Klaus] And this was
not just a Western trend. In Brazil, meat company, JBS, invested a hundred million dollars into innovative animal free alternatives. And in China, the Ministry of Agriculture
built alternative protein into the next official five year plan. - I want to eat something that's real. That's the real thing
that came from the earth, from the planet that was actually intended for us to be eating, not
out of a lab that's made of, I don't know what, made of
chemicals planted with chips. - Why are people talking about
things being too processed? They're talking about it
because there is a narrative that's being put out in the
media by the meat industry, by the animal agriculture
industry to tell us that plant-based meats are too processed. We know for a fact that there is a concerted effort
towards making us scared of these products and we
cannot play into that hand. Vegans absolutely should
not be playing into the hand of the meat industry and
we need to come together to support all types
of alternative protein. - Once living animals are eliminated and replaced by patented
plant derived alternatives, private companies will
control the food supply and therefore control the people. - But these media pundits failed to realize that it was actually a select
number of meat companies that control the system
and that the vast majority of the products these
meat companies supply rely on steroids, hormones, and antibiotics, notwithstanding the slaughter. - Some people see plant-based alternatives to meats as "fake food", but I think maybe they're not thinking about the intents behind these foods. The point is to create a
product that tries to mimic the taste and textures
of meat from animals, but with a much smaller
environmental footprint and without causing unnecessary
suffering to animals. - In just one day, more farmed animals are
killed than the total number of people killed in all
wars throughout history. - People will still be able
to eat their favorite foods except no suffering will
be caused to animals. - And I saw a full page New York Times article slamming them. It was from the Consumer Freedom Choice, which is really the Beef
Council with another name. - Chinese residents aren't
the only ones in lockdown. - Yeah, farmers across the US and Europe are keeping their organic
and free range chickens inside amidst the worst outbreak of avian influenza in years. More than 35 million birds have been wiped out this year alone in one of the worst bird flu
outbreaks in US history. - [Klaus] As the H5N1 bird flu strain affected various continents, African swine flu also
wrecked havoc on Thai farmers. - [Speaker 1] Because
factory farms crammed so many animals tightly
together in filthy conditions, they're actually ideal
environments for diseases like bird flu to breakout. They're basically super
spreader events on steroids. - [Klaus] Later in the year, the UK government were taken to court for concealing public health
risks of factory farming. This came amid devastating
news that pork products were contaminated with resistant strains of last resort antibiotics. - Industrial livestock
production is dependent on the routine use of
antibiotics to prevent the diseases which are inevitable when animals are kept in poor conditions. This excessive use of antibiotics leads to the emergence of antibiotic resistance, which can then be transferred to people. - [Speaker 2] Of the antibiotics produced by the pharmaceutical industry, about 70% of them are fed to farm animals. It's already killing 1.3
million people per year. By 2050, it's gonna be 10
million people per year. The UK government says
it's a more certain threat to humanity than climate change. - Globally we're seeing a dramatic rise of multi-drug resistant infections. These superbugs everywhere,
resistant to standard and even last ditch antimicrobials. And we've got nothing to treat them. - It showed that shifting
away from animal agriculture would also be good for public health as well as personal health. As this message was even
propagated by King Charles. - I must say I was
fascinated to meet once again with Professor Dean
Ornish and his wife, Anne, earlier this year at my home at High Grove. They are remarkable leaders
in lifestyle medicine and have demonstrated that
simple lifestyle changes, improving diet and exercise, reducing stress and
building relationships, can not only prevent but
even reverse the progression of many chronic diseases. - Research in 2022
confirmed a plant-based diet could reverse type two diabetes,
lower the risk of dementia, improve weight control, tackle cancer, and provide performance enhancing benefits with various types of exercise. - Animal products contain many components. They're either carcinogenic or they cause chronic inflammation, oxidative stress and atherosclerosis. - Dr. Dean Ornish, the
heart disease reversal study was published in the most
prestigious medical journal in the world, The Lancet,
out of Great Britain. I feel like I'm talking
to a flat earther here, but it's even worse than that. I mean, if you wanna go around talking about like lizard people or something, you can just get dismissed as a crank. But what you're spewing
could actually hurt people, could kill people. - It's about time we have a
food conversation in our country because if we maintain this course, we literally could see in our lifetime, almost half of our government
dollars going to Medicaid, Medicare and other
healthcare related costs. - Now what we have to bear in
mind is we subsidize farmers with billions of pounds every single year. - Explain that a little bit more. - Absolutely. So subsidies
are taxpayers money. So when we give, yeah, when we pay our taxes, a portion of that money is
given to certain industries. It's given to fossil fuel companies. It's also given to the
agricultural industry as well. We're subsidizing farmers so much that 90% of the profits of grazing animal farmers, that's cattle farmers, sheep farmers, 90% of their profits is
coming from the taxpayer. And those products are
still expensive to buy in a supermarket. So this is not an
economically viable system without the help of the taxpayer. - We shift our subsidies from the stuff that's making us sick to the
stuff that makes us well, we will see the cost of
taxpayers going way down because diseases, pharmaceutical costs, will go down and you'll see
an elevation of wellbeing in the health of Americans. - [Klaus] Major hotel
chains release vegan menus. An all vegan cooking competition
launched on Unchained TV, Discovery Plus's food network
featured vegan Tabitha Brown. Renowned chefs spoke
out about the benefits of a plant-based diet. And Vegan Chefs featured a
master chef around the world. - From the beginner at the master chef, I told them like, look, I'm here because I wanna win master chef without cooking meat. - I'm now on a mission to unleash
the mighty power of plants to create foods that we crave, full of flavors and textures
that are more nutritious and better for us and the planet. I believe in compassionate
action and the way I express that is through cooking and
developing amazing recipes that inspire and teach people how to make and eat delicious foods without animals. Vegan food for meat
eaters and vegans alike. Because like most people, I wanna save the animals and the planet, but there's no way that's gonna happen if I have to compromise on taste. - We're not even told that historically, plant-based food is our food culture. Like we didn't start on a plantation, we started in Africa eating fresh foods. And our foods and vegetables for medicine. - What a voice. He used to run a vegan
cafe in Kosha and Essex. We're all wishing him luck. Bless ya. - I don't eat chicken. Sorry. I don't eat meat. - [Klaus] And as governments continue to bail out the animal
agriculture industry, what came as a shock was
the cost of living crisis. A crisis that would ironically
hit the meat market first. It showed that economics
above everything else could be the primary
force to shift society. - We might have put the
cart before the horse. We might have assumed that
what has to happen first is the ethical shift and then
the behavioral shift follows the ethical shift. But what I think we are likely to see is that the behavioral shift comes first. That people almost accidentally drift into eating non-animal products. And people will start eating
them without massively thinking about the shift that they're making. But then having made that
behavioral shift and then say, well, you know, this
isn't all that different to what I've been eating before. And I heard someone saying
something about these chickens are raised in factories
and they're really lame and they get really ill
and they fight each other and it's a bit disgusting. And pigs, oh my God, look
at what's happening to pigs. It creates a susceptibility. It opens the channel for people to become more aware
of the ethical issues. - Mm, try vegan? - I want meat. - Just meat. - Sounds good. - Pulled pork.
- Pulled pork. Oh, so hungry. I could eat a horse. - Just meat delivered fresh to your door with a free gift for our new customers. - [Announcer] Try going vegan today. - So for me, the big thing
that changed becoming a vegan is that I started seeing
all animals as a someone, not a some thing, okay. I think that many people vastly
underestimates the amount of suffering that we cause them, even in just the legal
things that we do to them. A lot of those things are
things that would be outrageous if done to dogs and cats,
it would be illegal. Like they would get canceled and arrested. - Industrially farmed animals can still face horrific overcrowded and unsanitary conditions
and be subject to abuse by those who purport to care for them. - Now why is it wrong to slap
a cat but not to put pigs in gas chambers for a bacon sandwich? - The root of all oppression stems from devaluing the lives of another being. And so if we can just
learn to look at animals and treat them with love and respect, we can surely treat each
other with that same kindness and create a much more peaceful world. - It's not chicken. So
don't call it chicken. - Don't take my language. Don't pretend your sausage
roll's a real sausage roll. Shut up and go away. Apart from anything else, I agree with the French where it's illegal to market vegetarian or vegan
products using meat language. A sausage role is meat. - Throughout 2022, various countries banned
plant-based companies from using words to quote
"give the impression of meat or dairy." And in a dramatic move, the South African Food
Safety Agency threatened to clear shelves of
plant-based meat products. - The Department of Agriculture is threatening to seize
plant-based products using names associated with meat. - The South African
Meat Process Association has welcomed the decision, as it says, using meat terms on vegan
products is actually misleading. - Producers of these plant-based products in the main are not happy with this ban and they're calling this a low move. - This move not only overturned, but also spelled on a
number of vegan advocates to release documentaries including Eating Our Way to Extinction, Hogwood, Milk, The Land
of Ahimsa and Milked, a groundbreaking documentary exposing the dairy industry in New Zealand. - So I am not afraid as a
agricultural storyteller of talking about things like institutionalized animal cruelty because it makes it real. And you know...... ......where I'm going with this. No, I can probably leave it, yeah. - The dairy industry has
been incredibly successful in hiding what goes on in order
to produce their products. People don't even know that
cows have to be impregnated and then have their babies taken away for us to have that milk. They don't know about the horn cutting, the castration, the ear tags. They don't know about the
animal experimentation. In New Zealand, cows are among
the most tested on animals because of the dairy industry. They've already doubled
their milk production. And of course this has an impact on cows from severe joint pain to
infections which are so common in the dairy industry. There's even a so-called "mastitis
market" and it's expected to grow to $2.4 billion by 2030. - Towards the end of the year, activists began speaking
out about a wide range of animal industries. And lawyer, Wayne Tsiung was put on trial for entering
a pig farm illegally. - Two animal rights activists
are facing felony, burglary, and theft charges and 10 years in prison. The activists went into a
Smithfield food factory, filmed the deplorable conditions, and also rescued a dying piglet. - [Klaus] The attorney holding the trial against Waynes Young did
not allow the court room to see the pig footage,
because as they claimed, would cause an "emotional
reaction" within the jury. - [Reporter] During the rescue operation, activists with the group
found piglets feeding on their own mother's blood, pregnant pigs held in gestational
crates too small for them to turn around in and
sickened feverish piglets left to die of starvation or be trampled. - Animal rights activists
came out to support the case, which saw Waynes Young exonerated from any criminal responsibility. - [Reporter] Let's get them removed. - What we're doing is
we're asking the government to support farmers and fishing
communities in a transition to a plant-based food
system because we know that animal agriculture is a leading cause of the climate crisis. - Because we obviously can't
rely on the governments. The government's basically
are trying to kill our future. So we're entirely dependent
on our own activism. - It's the Guardian reading,
tofu eating, wokerati, dare I say, the anti-growth coalition. - These acts of childish,
petty, pathetic vandalism. - Our right to protest
was being eroded away and now we are crying over spilled milk. - They understand that the only
way they seem to get talked about or their issues get talked about is when they do something extreme. - [Speaker 3] It is a crisis. There's no other word to
describe it but a crisis. And therefore it needs to be handled as the magnitude of the crisis it is. I believe that what we do over
the next five years is going to determine the future of
humanity for the next millennium. - [Speaker 4] So instead
of looking for hope, start creating it yourself. - Should we go vegan to save the planet? - Climate change has really
come front and center to the public conversation in a way that it never has before. - This is not utopian vision. This is the shift many
groups are predicting. Credible, reputable groups that
are telling us very clearly that food system is
likely to transform away from using animals as a mode production and into something sustainable. - We can't have any more climate summits where they serve lobster and steak. Those days have to be behind us. - [Klaus] Towards the end of the year, universities pledged to go 100% vegan. High-end restaurants
began choosing vegan menus and cities around the world
endorsed the Plant-Based Treaty in a bid to tackle climate change. - We have a long road ahead
of us to turn things around. And in my view, passion isn't
an option. It's a necessity. Because without it, we
just won't have the drive that's necessary to push us
through when times get tough or scary or lonely. - Climate crisis is a problem
because it causes suffering to individuals, human and non-human. And whether an animal is
a sea turtle in the ocean, a giraffe in a zoo, a cat at home, a chicken in a factory farm,
or a fish in the ocean, their life, they're
suffering, matters to them. And shouldn't that be
the only reason we need to care about them too?
