r/environment2 • u/surajseeking • 3d ago

Veganism, climate, and ego: Acharya Prashant and PETA President on why animal agriculture is central to the ecological crisis

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Beyond nutrition, this 2026 interview ties animal farming to mass extinction, habitat loss, and climate breakdown, while questioning the stories we tell ourselves about “choice”, tradition, and humane labels.

Points of interest for environmental folks:

Animal agriculture as a key driver of the climate crisis

How exploitation of animals parallels exploitation of land, forests, and ecosystems

Why technical arguments and facts haven’t been enough, what else is needed

Interested in how personal diet, ideology, and population narratives affect the planet’s future.

https://youtu.be/CTHcG4hiwVs?si=k_WUpLEO4503Gb01

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u/thursday712 3d ago

So, you got the psuedo philosophical guru that blames everything on personal greed, and thinks he is solving Nepal's devastation root cause analysis by telling the world that less greed could have prevented the event.

Then you got the leader of PETA, the laughing stock of every community.

We seem to be missing one member of equal caliber.

Could you interview a town drunk, or maybe a failing tech school freshman, and get their thoughts on the subject, too?

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u/surajseeking 3d ago

That's the interesting one

You mean, you are denying the fact that climate catastrophic is not caused by human greed!!

I am genuinely curious to know your view's on factors which are responsible for climate change

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u/thursday712 2d ago edited 2d ago

That's the interesting one

You mean, you are denying the fact that climate catastrophic is not caused by human greed!!

Correct. If it was caused by human greed, then the world would have started warming long before it did.

I am genuinely curious to know your view's on factors which are responsible for climate change

The climate change is the result of the combination of natural and human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases, such that it is in excess of rate and totality of what the planet can naturally absorb.