Jonathan Safran Foer: If You Care About Climate Change, Cut Out Meat

In “We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast,” the author argues that individual actions matter when it comes to the environment.

Eating Animals, Foer’s 2009 nonfiction book on modern factory farming, famously convinced Natalie Portman to go vegan.  In his new book, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast, Foer argues that avoiding meat is a critical step everyone should take to help tackle the climate crisis.  He cites a Johns Hopkins University report that concludes we won’t be able to avoid temperature increases of more than 2 degrees Celsius (about 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) — beyond which catastrophic climate change becomes much more likely — if global trends in meat and dairy intake continue. 

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