COULD A PLANETARY CHANGE IN DIET BE THE FIRST STEP TO SAVING OUR DEMOCRACY?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 29 October 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Thom and Frances Moore Lappe discuss how activists in the anti-war movement turned to vegetarianism as a sign of their commitment to non-violence. The book Diet for a Small Planet explains what we need to do to improve our diet, save the planet and have enough food for everyone.
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| 0:46.0 | And greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers in peace, |
| 0:52.0 | freedom and the American way, Tom Hartman here with you. We're going to do a deep dive, |
| 0:56.3 | conversations with great minds, with Francis Morela Paid. It's a 50 year anniversary of her book |
| 1:01.6 | Diet for a small planet. There's a new addition out, and she does a deep dive, not just into diet, |
| 1:07.1 | but also into politics or into democracy, into the consequences of how we eat for the planet, |
| 1:14.0 | as well as for our bodies. And I think you're going to find that an absolutely fascinating conversation. |
| 1:19.2 | And also energy cannibalism. This is absolutely fascinating. I was flagged about this, |
| 1:27.4 | by a post over on Daily Coase, by Pacalolo in the community threads, where I occasionally post as well. |
| 1:35.7 | And it's titled energy cannibalism is happening so fast that the collapse of the oil industry will |
| 1:41.9 | blow up renewables, will derail the renewables. And here's what it is and how it works. |
| 1:49.6 | When you pump oil out of the ground, there's a whole spectrum of amounts of effort it takes to get |
| 1:56.2 | that oil. Most of us of a certain age remember the movies from back in the first half of the 20th |
| 2:02.8 | century. When people would go out to Oklahoma or Texas and they'd drill a water well thinking |
| 2:07.6 | they would find water and they'd hit a certain depth and suddenly oil would come gushing out of |
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