The Cowspiracy Conference is in Berkeley, California on September 17. I encourage people to sign up and attend. (And if somehow you haven't yet seen Cowspiracy (website, trailer), by all means check out the compelling environmental documentary on Netflix, or the companion book, The Sustainability Secret (Amazon)!)
This brings up the issue that the role that film could play in promoting EA causes more generally. I'd love to have people's thoughts on any or all of the following issues, and/or similar issues:
- Existing plans to make films on EA or high-impact topics
- Existing EA or semi-EA films people should watch, screen, or promote
- EA-related films that should exist
- candidate topics
- candidate titles
- candidate pitches
- etc.
- Promotion & audience engagement
- Effectiveness issues
- cost
- cost-effectiveness
- expected impact
- room for funding
- tractability
- talent needs
Some evidence to support this view: "With intended behavior, we see clear and significant differences between the different options. Respondents were significantly more likely to replace beef with chicken/fish/pork (a) than they were any of the other mitigation options (bc). As expected, they were significantly less likely to refrain from eating meat completely (c) than all other options."
Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030691921630077X
The full paper is paywalled, but I'd be happy to share the PDF with anyone who's interested. Just send me a message.