#54 How to Save The Planet at Breakfast with Jonathan Safran Foer
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Today I speak with author and activist Jonathan Safran Foer about the current pandemic, how he is coping and an inconvenient problem that dwarfs the impact of Covid. The big C – Climate.
Jonathan is the author of three award-winning and internationally best-selling novels. He won The Guardian Book Prize for his debut novel, was included in Granta’s “Best of Young American Novelists” issue as well as The New Yorker’s“20 under 40” list of the best young writers in the US; and his books are published in over 30 languages
And I know what you’re thinking. Yes it’s important. Yes I know I should be doing more. And no I’m not doing enough. It’s too hard.
In today's espisode we talk about:
- How the actions of ordinary people as a collective can have huge impacts
- Not to rely on the government for action and how we can act
- The simplest most effective solution is diet
- How we are all hypocrites and a layer of realism is useful
- Why climate change and global warming has a branding problem
Jonathan Safran Foer's book, We Are The Weather, is out now, definitely do go and check it out. Along with another one of Jonathan's books - Eating Animals, it’s certainly one of my must reads for anybody interested in nutrition and how food choices impact the environment.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, just before we start the show, it's Dr. Ruby here and I want to tell you about my third cookbook. |
| 0:05.4 | Yes, I brought out a third cookbook. It's called 321 and the whole premise of every single recipe is |
| 0:12.4 | three portions of fruit and vegetables per person. Each recipe is two servings and |
| 0:18.4 | it only takes one pan. So they're gonna be curry, stews, |
| 0:22.4 | casseroles, tray bags, everything is really been thought about in terms of streamlining the recipes and |
| 0:28.7 | making sure that you're getting the most important thing in your diet to improve overall well-being, which is |
| 0:35.3 | fruit, vegetables, nuts and seeds. Trust me, it's gonna be an absolute game-changer. |
| 0:40.5 | You can pre-order it now on Amazon. It's going to be out January |
| 0:45.4 | 2021, go pre-order a copy and I will make sure you get something special in return. Go check it out. |
| 0:51.1 | 96% of voters have said that they think animals deserve legal protection from cruelty. If you can think of anything else in the world that 96% of Americans agree on, |
| 1:04.6 | I would love to hear about it. And there nobody wants pandemics. Everybody wants to be safe from these pandemics. They're horrible. |
| 1:12.8 | We know how to make ourselves safer so that challenge is actually not learning more and it's not |
| 1:20.3 | the need to become better people in the sense of what we believe and want and the level of values. It's just how |
| 1:28.9 | to translate that into the lives that we actually live. |
| 1:34.2 | Welcome to the Doctor's Kitchen podcast with me, Dr. Rupi, where we discuss food, lifestyle, medicine and how to improve your health today. |
| 1:42.5 | And I'm speaking with author and activist Jonathan Safran for about the current pandemic, how he's coping and the |
| 1:50.5 | inconvenient problem that absolutely dwarfs the impact of COVID. Yes, it's the big sea climate. Now, I know what you're thinking. |
| 1:59.7 | Yes, it's important. Yes, I know I should be doing more. I know I'm not doing enough. It's too hard. |
| 2:05.6 | Yeah, the other and they're exactly the same reasons that I find myself talk to my myself about. |
| 2:11.4 | And this is why Jonathan's latest book, We Are the Weather, How to Save the Planet of Breakfast, is such an important |
| 2:18.9 | readnight. I thoroughly recommend everyone read it. Today, we talk about how the actions of ordinary people as a |
| 2:25.7 | collective can yield huge impacts and now has never been a more important time to be reflective of this fact. |
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