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We Can’t Address Climate Without Addressing Food Inequity
Communities of color are at the center of balance for bringing our species back into harmony with the planet
Recent events have underscored the fact that we are at a necessary societal crossroads. This is a crucial moment for reshaping our systems to ensure social and environmental justice. Racist policing and incarceration practices, grotesque levels of economic inequality, a massive global health crisis, and rampant environmental degradation—these are all deeply intertwined structural problems, and our existing institutions are failing to solve them.
We cannot afford to “wait to see” if these shifts actually happen; the survival of nearly all species on this planet, including our own, depends on it. We are rapidly moving towards a 2.7°F rise in global temperatures, which a consensus of the scientific community believes would be catastrophic and irreversible. This is not hyperbole or hysteria, but simply a mundane fact regarding human civilization in 2020.
We must seize this opportunity to dismantle the animal agriculture industry’s stranglehold on both our planet’s resources and our collective health, particularly in our…
