Recipe for Survival: What You Can Do to Live a Healthier and More Environmentally Friendly Life

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What can you do to improve your health and at the same time improve the health of our home planet? Do you want to be a healthier and more sustainable consumer? In this straightforward, easy-to-understand and entertaining book, dietitian and environmentalist Dr. Dana Ellis Hunnes outlines the actions we can all take. Many people feel overwhelmed by the scope of climate change and believe that only large, sweeping changes will make any difference. Yet the choices we make every day can have effects on climate change, the oceans, the land, and other species. This book outlines the problems we are facing, and then presents ideas or 'recipes' to empower us, to help us all make a difference. Recipe For Survival provides the guidance that you can use right now to improve your health, your family's health, and the health of the environment simultaneously. S List of Figures viii List of Tables ix Foreword xi Preface xv Acknowledgments xxi Introduction to Part 1 1 1 Agriculture Is a Major Driver of Climate Change (and Disease) 5 2 Politics and Dietary Guidelines: Two Major Problems 19 3 Overfishing: There Is No Such Thing as Sustainable Fish 32 4 Plastic: It’s What’s for Dinner 39 5 Environmental Exploitation 54 6 Species Exploitation for Entertainment 69 7 The Positives: Examples of the “Good” Being Done around the World 80 8 Part 2: Protecting Earth, One Recipe at a Time – An Introduction 96 9 Epilogue/Conclusion: Final Thoughts and Key Takeaways 219 Appendix Recipes You Can Use 224 Notes 235 Bibliography 249 Index 298