It is easy to see the faults of others, but difficult to see one’s own faults. One shows the faults of others like chaff winnowed in the wind, but one conceals one’s own faults as a cunning gambler conceals his dice. (Buddha, the Dhammapada)
Why do you see the speck in your neighbor’s eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye? ....You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbor’s eye. (Matthew 7:3-5)
Bazerman --- Basically, humans are biased to selectively see evidence supportive of the conclusion they would like to reach, while ignoring evidence that goes against their preferences or subjecting it to special scrutiny See No Evil: Why We Overlook Other People's Unethical Behaviour
The environmental groups and the governmental agencies charged with protecting the environment ask people to change many habits, to take shorter showers, to drive less, to purchase smaller cars etc. Why are they afraid to ask people to change the way that they eat to save the environment despite the fact that animal agriculture is, at the very least, one of the leading causes of environmental degredation?
Why is it so hard for people to change the way that they eat?
Examples of the bias toward normalcy?
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=normalcy%20bias
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/15/opinion/brooks-lets-all-feel-superior.html?_r=0
Some people suffer from what the psychologists call Normalcy Bias. When they find themselves in some unsettling circumstance, they shut down and pretend everything is normal.
"normalcy bias" which results in underestimating the probability or extent of expected disruption.
Some jews left and some Jews who could have left stayed.
Bias towards normalcy
Methane as a green house gas
Deforestation – clear cutting rain forests
91% of deforestation caused by animal a
Animal defecation
Fracking v animal agriculture
How much water a person use a day
Water to create a pound of egetable protein vs.
Personal water saving vs. not eatin meat
What would happen in drought if animal agriculture cut if half
Behavior change –
Is there a real conspiracy
1/3rd all freshwater
species extinction
ocean dead zones –
Why don’t’ environmental orgs want to address this issue
Effect of methane emissions - will go down
Land use - how much land already deoted to animal agriculture;
Impact of factory fish farming on water quality
Impact of fishing ¾ fishieries over exployment – fishless oceans
By-kill in sustainable fishing
10,000 years ago -- Free living animals 99% of biomass – humans 1%; – now Human and our animals 98% of biomass – free living 2%
Role of environmental factors in destablizing communities;
Largest mass extinction of species in 65 million years
Don’t confuse people with compliex arguments
Large environmental orgs as membership and fundraising organizations
116,000 lbs of farm animal excrement per second in the u.s.
Nitrogen flooded dead zones
Pacific Gyre
Why are rain forests the planets lungs
If the oceans die, we die
What to do with all the cows
Palm oil
Why are they hiding the role of animal agricultural in environmental degradation.
Drivers to deforestation:
Is grass fed cattle an alternative to factory farming –
Carbon footprint –
Impact of population on environment
Sustainability of milk
Wild horses
Wild buurows
Land management
Externalized or hidden costs – if required to internalize
Ag-Gag law
Animal rights terrorists at the top of FBI domestic terrorists
Want to keep us in the dark about what happens –
Huma over population 1812 1912 2012 7 billion
70 bill farm animals;
energy conversion rate
backyard farming
You can’t be an environmentalist and eat animal products
Is a vegetarian diet
Purpose of cow’s milk is to turn a 65 lb calf to a 400 pound stter asap
Baby calf growth fluid; secretion of a large bovine mammal who just had a baby
Animal manure to growth health food
Spiritual
Feeling better
You can change the world
You must change the world.