![]() “We do not know for sure if animal agriculture is a leading cause of climate change or the leading cause of climate change,” Foer writes in his new non-fiction book, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast, out September 17. When it comes to climate change, animal agriculture - and our diet - is culpable. So he began researching, and he found a piece of the climate change puzzle that had eluded him, even after publishing his non-fiction book Eating Animals, about animal suffering in a world of industrialized factory farming. ![]() ![]() Foer says he knew what he thought he knew about the environmental crisis and what individuals could do about it (plastic straws = bad, recycling = good), but he needed more. Sometimes it would be in response to separated families at the border, other times about gun control, but more often than not, it was about climate change.Īt a certain point, according to the author and novelist ( Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close), it became intolerable. ![]() Jonathan Safran Foer found himself repeating this mantra with increasing frequency and intensity over the past few years, but especially this year. ![]()
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