Filed under: Sustainability, politics | Tags: Al Gore, environment, Sustainability
I don’t normally get political here, but this video is important. Al Gore spoke last week in DC and addressed the crises in climate, economy and national security. All are connected. And he has called for American to be carbon free within 10 years.
What does this have to do with health, wellness and food? Everything. Our climate is drastically affecting food production already. Food prices and gas prices and job availability affect our primary food, our stress and our families’ abilities to provide for themselves. Environmental stability is a MAJOR factor in our health and wellbeing, both physically and emotionally. Changes in food production are an important part of changing our energy consumption, from factory farms, concentrated animal feed lots to organic farming.
While the speech did not touch on the importance of reducing our impact by making different choices, like buying local food, using less energy to begin with and other personal choices, he does finally address the importance and necessity of regulatory changes from the top of the system.
I invite you to take 30 minutes and watch the speech. I try to make changes on a personal level, for myself and those that I work with, and it’s nice to see someone working on changes from a bigger platform.
