COP3 PROPOSAL Tilly Catherine Naomi Butters
What is Good? - To what extent does Social Responsibility impact on the role and function of illustration? I feel like social responsibility should be at the core of my work and future career as an illustrator because when trying to raise awareness or communicate things that really matter to me, I’m really passionate about what I do. Its so important that we use our skills to inform the world visually, provide new ways of seeing and understanding and potentially help shape the future. Within the question I aim to continue my studies from this year but look at things in a new light. After completing this years essay and practical work I watched a documentary called ‘Cowspiracy’ which has completely changed my views and opinions on the world and the issues I addressed in Cop2. I would like to gain further knowledge on the subject of global warming and our ecosystem, but start to look at various arguments that I didn't cover this year, like agriculture, water use, fracking and what we can do to make a change. Climate change is something that I feel very strongly about since the start of this year, and the more I learn, the more interested I become, so I think this is a great starting point for me. Biodiversity and how plants have such an incredible impact on the world is also something I want to look into. I would like to explore the relationship between plants and climate change and try to understand what changes can be made in our daily lives to strive towards a greener future. To summarize, I would like to research agriculture and plants and other various elements that impact our eco system and result in global warming.
RELEVANT SUBJECTS AGRICULTURE-‐ How this is impacting the world on a global scale, the consequences and the benefits. Why the facts are kept quiet. GLOBAL WARMING/DEFORESTATION-‐ More depth than what I've covered this year, more reasons for the cause and more ways in which it can be stopped. WILDLIFE-‐ How wildlife is decreasing daily and what will happen to our ecosystem if we continue to live this way. Animal tested products, how and why its not more obvious. PLANTS, BOTANISTS-‐ Plants and their properties, how they can help make a difference. Plants becoming endangered. Healing properties that plants have, that cant be found in any man made product, link this back to mass production. DIETS – Look into whether it is possible to live a completely plant based diet, and what differences this would make to the ecosystem.
QUOTES “Animal agriculture is responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, more than the combined exhaust from all transportation.” Fao.org. Spotlight: Livestock impacts on the environment. “2,500 gallons of water are needed to produce 1 pound of beef.” Oppenlander, Richard A. Food Choice and Sustainability: Why Buying Local, Eating Less Meat, and Taking Baby Steps Won’t Work. Minneapolis, MN: Langdon Street, 2013. Print “477 gallons of water are required to produce 1lb. of eggs; almost 900 gallons of water are needed for 1lb. of cheese.” “Meateater’s Guide to Climate Change & Health.” Environmental Working Group. “Animal agriculture is the leading cause of species extinction, ocean dead zones, water pollution, and habitat destruction.” “The US lower 48 states represents 1.9 billion acres. Of that 1.9 billion acres: 778 million acres of private land are used for livestock grazing (forest grazing, pasture grazing, and crop grazing), 345 million acres for feed crops, 230 million acres of public land are used for grazing livestock.” “Up to 137 plant, animal and insect species are lost every day due to rainforest destruction.”
BOOKS-‐ The Sustainability Secret: Rethinking Our Diet to Transform the World-‐ Filled with anecdotes, statistics, research, interviews with the filmmakers and contributors, and unabridged transcripts from the film, this companion book supplements and expands upon the documentary in every way. With all this and more, The Sustainability Secret reveals the absolutely devastating environmental impact large-‐scale factory farming has on our planet and offers a path to global sustainability for a growing population. Comfortably Unaware-‐ In this book, Dr. Richard Oppenlander tackles the crucial issue of ''global depletion'' as it relates to food choice. His forthright information and stark mental images are often disturbing-‐-‐and that's how it should be. As the guardians of Planet Earth, we need to be shaken out of our complacency, to stop being ''comfortably unaware,'' and to understand the measures we must take to ensure the health and well-‐being of our planet-‐-‐and of ourselves.
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate-‐ Forget everything you think you know about global warming. I t's not about carbon -‐ it's about capitalism. The good news is that we can seize this crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better.
Food Choice and Sustainability-‐ Food Choice and Sustainability is a groundbreaking new book that anyone who cares about our future and that of other species should read-‐-‐individuals, academic institutions, businesses, organizations, and policy makers. Categories of global depletion are detailed, widely held myths are debunked, critical disconnects are exposed, and profound solutions are offered. The Mad Cowboy – Told by the man who kicked off the infamous lawsuit between Oprah and the cattlemen, "Mad Cowboy" is an impassioned account of the highly dangerous practices of the cattle and dairy industries. Howard Lyman's testimony on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" revealed the deadly impact of the livestock industry on our well-‐being. It not only led to Oprah's declaration that she'd never eat a burger again, it sent shock waves through a concerned and vulnerable public. A fourth-‐ generation Montana rancher, Lyman investigated the use of chemicals in agriculture after developing a spinal tumor that nearly paralyzed him.
Websites-‐ -‐http://www.cowspiracy.com -‐http://savetheamazon.org/rainforeststats.htm -‐http://rainforests.mongabay.com/amazon/amazon_destruction.html -‐http://rainforests.mongabay.com/amazon/amazon_wildlife.html -‐ http://www.fao.org/home/en/ -‐ http://www.wwf.org.uk/wildlife/ -‐ http://wwoofinternational.org -‐ http://www.saynotopalmoil.com/Whats_the_issue.php -‐ http://eco-‐issues.com/TheIndustrialRevolutionandItsImpactonOurEnvironment.html
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Stats and facts from the cowspiracy website.
CONTEXTUAL REFERENCES The feature film Forks Over Knives examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting animal-‐based and processed foods. Dr. Campbell, a nutritional scientist at Cornell University, was concerned in the late 1960’s with producing “high quality” animal protein to bring to the poor and malnourished areas of the third world. While in the Philippines, he made a life-‐changing discovery: the country’s wealthier children, who were consuming relatively high amounts of animal-‐based foods, were much more likely to get liver cancer. Dr. Esselstyn, a top surgeon and head of the Breast Cancer Task Force at the world-‐renowned Cleveland Clinic, found that many of the diseases he routinely treated were virtually unknown in parts of the world where animal-‐based foods were rarely consumed. FORKS OVER KNIVES IS A G OOD S TARTING POINT WHEN LOOKING AT DIETS AND AGRICULTURE. ITS B ACKED B Y THE KNOWLEDGE OF PROFESSIONAL AND EDUCATED DOCTORS WHO KNOW S O MUCH ABOUT THE HUMAN B ODY AND THE POTERNTIAL THREATS THAT ARE ARISING F ROM EATING ANIMAL PRODUCTS. WHICH LINKS B ACK TO DEFORESTATION HAPPENING IN ORDER TO HARVEST THESE ANIMALS.
WWOOF organisations connect people who want to live and learn on organic farms and smallholdings with people who are looking for volunteer help. WWOOF hosts offer food, accommodation and opportunities to learn about organic lifestyles. Volunteers give hands on help in return. THIS S UMMER I THINK IT WILL B E A G REAT OPPORTUNITY TO G ET S OME F IRST HAND R ESEARCH AND VOLUNTEER ON A FARM OR S MALL HOLDING THAT’S DEDICATED TO A G REENER F UTURE. WOOFING WILL B E A G REAT WAY F OR ME TO LEARN MORE ABOUT WHAT I WANT TO R ESEARCH, AND IN A WAY THAT’S FAR MORE PERSONAL.
Animal agriculture contributes to species extinction in many ways. In addition to the monumental habitat destruction caused by clearing forests and converting land to grow feed crops and for animal grazing, predators and "competition" species are frequently targeted and hunted because of a perceived threat to livestock profits. The widespread use of pesticides, herbicides and chemical fertilizers used in the production of feed crops often interferes with the reproductive systems of animals and poison waterways. The overexploitation of wild species through commercial fishing, bushmeat trade as well as animal agriculture’s impact on climate change, all contribute to global depletion of species and resources. TRY TO UNDERSTAND AND LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS.