I want you to close your eyes. I want you to imagine a world where people starve
because they don't have enough to eat. A world where we have floods, droughts,
hurricanes and sinking cities. We're fighting with each over
resources, there are dead people on the streets and diseases are spreading like
wildfire as a result of a lack of clean drinking water. I want you to open your
eyes again. Now this is not some sinister scenario from a Hollywood movie, this is
an estimate by the World Health Organization that by the year 2013 every
two minutes somebody on this earth - somebody on our earth - will die as a
result of climate change. Now this is not a talk about how the world is
doomed. This is not a trial, and you're not being judged or convicted. As a matter of fact,
believe it or not, but it's an optimistic talk. It's a call for positive thoughts
and you will soon find out why. Granted, we're facing challenges like we never
did before. The polar caps are melting, the oceans are rising and around 800
million people do not have enough to eat. That's one in nine people. It often
seems to us as if this was due to higher powers, nature, big corporations and that
the only people in power to change something are politicians, at best.
Here's the thing: They can't - and they won't. But what if I told you that you could
be the reason why this planet continues to exist? What I told you you could save
millions of lives and alter the course of history? You'd call me crazy. And you'd
have a every reason to. Just look at the amount of people in this world: 7.5
billion and counting. Seems like a big number, right? Wrong. It's gigantic. Let me
put this in perspective for you. What do you think is the percentage that one
individual accounts for? Sure, you'd need a couple of
zeros after the comma - but how much exactly? Four zeros? No. Five zeros? Keep
going. Seven zeros? Almost. It's nine zeros. Zero point zero
zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero one three percent. Now let me make this
graphic for you. If we stacked people on top of each other, we could surely reach the
moon, right? But even then we've only used four percent of the population. With the
remaining people, we could go to the moon and back
not ten, not eleven - but 12 times. Here's one last visualization. Look at this circle.
This is the earth, this is where the moon runs around us and if we took
each other by the hand this would be the size of our circle. That would be us.
That is how much we are. And yet here I stand, telling you that YOU matter and
that YOU can change the world. Now there are two options. Number one: I lied to you.
Number two: I told you the truth and there are in fact things you can do. Wait,
no: It's even easier. There's only one thing you have to do. Actually, it's even
easier than that: It is something that you simply don't have to do anymore and
that is eating animals. Now you may have heard this a thousand times:
"Oh, the poor animals, look at how cute they are"
Animals are cute and you know that. I'm here to tell you things you don't know yet.
For example this is the amount of people that could be fed on the grounds
we have available depending on what we use them for. And this is increasingly
important, given that many fear constant growth and ultimately
overpopulation. Remember the graphic? We're going to be even more.
And you see that we have to grow vegetables rather than meat. Besides
it is nutritionally superior - look at this! More fibre, more iron, more clacium, more magnesium
less cholesterol - and it even works out to be cheaper for you! And lastly...
This is what a vegan saves every single day when it comes to resources. Now let's
do the math: After a year that's 400,000 gallons of water - the equivalent of 3
million small bottles. And after five years you've saved four hundred thousand
kilograms of grain - that's going to feed two thousand people for a year. And after ten
years you've saved three hundred fifty thousand kilograms of carbon dioxide.
For reference: a car uses around four thousand kilograms a year. So you could
be driving around for 90 years every single day and you would still not be
near the amount of carbon dioxide you're safe just through your lifestyle. Now I
know what you may think, I've heard the preoccupations: Oh it's so hard being vega-
No. It's not. Trust me, I've been there. First day in Costa Rica, going to the restaurant, I asked them
Would you have anything vegan? They looked at me with a sense of surprise,
bewilderment and even some sort of fear and told me "No." The next day, I came prepared.
I told them I'd be ordering: Gallo Pinto,
Picadillos de Verdura, Platanos Maduros, Ensalada verde, Yucca Frita y una tortilla.
Boom. Vegan meal - sorted. Other people say: "Well, we've been eating animals for
hundreds of years so... So? We've had slaves for hundreds of years, we've brutally
oppressed women, minorities and other nations but at some point we decided that:
"No, that's not a very smart or human thing to do", so just because we did
something for ages does not give us any justification or permission to keep it
going. Listen: I'm not telling you what you
SHOULD do. I'm only telling you what you COULD do - What you are capable of as an
individual. Ultimately, it's your choice. In a few years, somebody will die from
the results of climate change every two minutes. And in the very same time, two
minutes, you alone could be saving five liters of water. It is your time. What will
you do with it?
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