“The world is not such a terrible place, as long as you look at it wrong” – Glen Merzer.

Share Vega’s message about animal agriculture and climate change.

Share Vega’s message about Food Healers.

Dear Climate Healers,

We have been looking at everything the wrong way around.

Imagine that we were genetically programmed to “serve animals” and we mistook it for the past 10,000 years to mean that we were intended to enslave animals, chop their heads off and serve their body parts and secretions to each other on platters as food. For someone who truly understands how to nourish the human body biologically, this makes no sense.

As the late, great Dr. John McDougall said, “Animal foods are not our food. Animal foods are full of cholesterol, animal protein and fat, with no starch, dietary fiber or other essential sugars for health. They are infiltrated with big doses of people-poisoning environmental chemicals and loads of infection causing bacteria, parasites and viruses.”

At long last, we are now waking up to the idea that we are supposed to eat plants, rewild nature and truly serve animals to ensure their wellbeing and not harm them unnecessarily.

This transforms everything, the education system, the food system, the governance system, the economic system, the health care system, and lastly yes, also the energy infrastructure. At Climate Healers, we subscribe to Deborah Frieze’s Two Loops Theory of Change, which argues that we cannot fundamentally change BIG systems. We can only abandon them and start over.

Enter Planet B. On Planet B,

Animal Agriculture is the leading cause of climate change
And we don’t believe anyone who says
Rapidly phasing down fossil fuel use should be a top priority
Because the reality is
We have been misled by the UN IPCC
So don’t tell us that
We have run out of solutions

(On Planet A, we have been wrongly reading this from the bottom up)

Planet A is built on the four foundational myths:
1. Protein is only found in animal foods;
2. Calcium is only found in dairy foods;
3. Human well-being necessitates endless economic growth; and
4. Fossil fuel use is the leading cause of climate change.

Planet B is built on the corresponding four foundational truths:
1. All plant foods have all amino acids and have complete protein;
2. If you eat enough calories on a natural diet, you will get enough calcium;
3. Human well-being necessitates a sense of purpose larger than ourselves; and
4. Animal agriculture is the leading cause of climate change, while stopping fossil fuel use now is suicidal.

There is no question that the living systems on Planet A, built on a foundation of falsehoods, are in terminal decline. Gone are the days when celebrating a token Earth day once a year was sufficient to lull the public into continuing the mindless destruction on Planet A.

It is painful to watch political leaders attempting to herd frightened Americans into Canada and Greenland, while imposing huge tariffs on foreign trade to create a closed, self-sufficient economy in order to ride out future temperature increases caused by the nature and climate crisis. As if the rest of the world will just burn, drown, or quietly go over an ecological cliff, while clinging to the American Way of Life on the Titanic that is Planet A.

This is a far cry from the can-do American leaders of the 60s, who hired a million engineers to work at NASA, who in turn successfully put a man on the moon.

Where are such extraordinary American engineers working on the infrastructure upgrade necessary for Planet B today? You will find some of them speaking courageously, zooming shoulder to shoulder with the people of the world at the Vegan Convergence Of the Peoples #21 (V-COP21). The solution to our nature and climate crisis is not that hard to comprehend. It is coded in the Cinderella Principles:

1. Have courage, be kind and all will be well.
2. Just because it is done, doesn’t mean that it is what should be done.
3. Imagine the world as it should be and work for it, not the world as it is.

It takes courage to be kind to all life, when on Planet A, the Killing machine is operating non-stop in a vain attempt to dominate and control nature. It is not rocket science to figure out that the number one thing we need to do to address the nature and climate crisis is to dispense with such a Killing Machine on Planet B. But it takes courage to admit that we are wrong, to be true to ourselves and to align our actions with our words and our intrinsic values.

It also takes discipline to do the work of Planet B. But then, nothing much worthwhile ever gets done without discipline. We are not going to solve the nature and climate crisis without discipline. We are not going to get physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually healthy without discipline. We are not going to end world hunger without discipline. We are not going to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 – really meet them instead of just pretending to meet them – without discipline.

Besides discipline, we are not going to meet the SDGs without a distributed global infrastructure upgrade project, the equivalent of a “Marshall plan” for the planet. While many aspects of this infrastructure upgrade are already being worked on in dribs and drabs everywhere, these projects have been sorely underfunded and vastly under resourced, even though they form the lifeline that we need to thrive on Planet B.

How do we gather the resources for the Seven Strategic Initiatives on Planet B? How do we gather the resources needed for the education system upgrade on Planet B? How do we inspire communities to join the Food Healers initiative on Planet B? How do we funnel resources for Vegan rewilding projects like Sadhana forest and the Vegan Land Movement to grow on Planet B?

How do we inspire a mass movement around our Planet B vision?

How do we make BIG change happen? Please register for V-COP21 this weekend and let’s continue our quarterly brainstorming together.

With much love,