Climate crisis is the single biggest threat to human survival. And it is happening right now. We all understand that time is running out – but do we truly believe it? And, caught between the seemingly unimaginable and the apparently unthinkable, how can we take the first step towards action, to arrest our race to extinction?
We can begin with our knife and fork. The link between farming animals and the climate crisis is barely discussed, because giving up our meat-based diets feels like an impossible ask. But we don’t have to go cold turkey. Cutting out animal products for just part of the day is enough to change the world.
The task of saving the planet will involve a great reckoning with ourselves – with our all-too-human reluctance to sacrifice immediate comfort for the sake of the future. But we have done it before and we can do it again. Collective action is the way to save our home and way of life. And it all starts with what we eat, and don’t eat, for breakfast.
With his distinctive wit, insight and humanity, Jonathan Safran Foer presents the essential debate of our time as no one else could, bringing it to vivid and urgent life and offering us all a much-needed way out.
MY THOUGHTS
When I started this book I was enjoying the author’s writing but then there were parts where I found him to be a little hypocritical like when he spoke about one of his previous books saying about why we shouldn’t eat meat then he admitted that his favourite food to eat on the promotional tour was hamburgers and how we shouldn’t be driving as much but then he would talk about driving down the road in his car. The book was informative but I was just a little put off by the author and felt like I couldn’t really take him seriously but he did have some really valid points he talked about and facts that he mentioned made me sit up think oh ok and go and research them myself. Overall I found the book to be informative and interesting it was just the author that sometimes made me sceptical.
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