Paul McCartney Slams Pres. Trump's Climate Change Denials: 'Forget About Him We Can Do Something'

  

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Sir Paul McCartney Slams Pres. Trump's Climate Change Denials: 'Forget About Him We Can Do Something'
by Gil Kaufman
Monday 11/6/2017


Sir Paul McCartney performs at the American Airlines Arena in Miami on July 7, 2017.
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As part of his effort to spread the gospel of vegetarianism, Sir Paul McCartney reportedly spoke to BBC's Radio 1 Newsbeat about a new short film he's promoting, One Day a Week, which encourages people to go just one day a week without eating animal products to help the environment.

"It's not the total solution, but it's part of the solution. A lot of people have been saying this for a long time but there's resistance," said McCartney. "Particularly when you've got someone like Trump who says that it (climate change) is just a hoax. A lot of people like myself think that's just madness so it's maybe a good time now to try and focus people's attention and say 'look, forget about him we can do something'."

Dubbing Trump's attitude about climate change "madness," McCartney accused the president of reversing "a lot of the advances that have been made" in battling global warming, which the president once claimed was invented by the Chinese in an attempt to hurt American manufacturing.

The McCartney film was released ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference this week and focuses on animal agriculture as an under-covered aspect of climate change. The foundation of Meat Free Monday is to "raise awareness and inspire people to make a change in their diets from an early achievable starting point." The film is narrated by McCartney and features his music -- including tracks from his 1997 orchestral album Standing Stone and an unreleased song called "Botswana."

For more information about Meat Free Monday and to view One Day a Week, click here .





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McCartney family launches new film ‘One Day a Week’

McCartney family launch Meat Free Monday's new film ‘One Day a Week’

With appearances by Paul, Mary and Stella McCartney, Woody Harrelson and Emma Stone, ‘One Day a Week’ highlights the damaging environmental impact of animal agriculture and encourages people to help by eating less meat.
 
Ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 23) next week, Meat Free Monday has released a short film about a huge contributor to climate change that is often left out of conference discussions – animal agriculture.
 
“There’s a simple but significant way to help protect the planet and all its inhabitants”, says Paul to camera.  “And it starts with just one day a week.  One day without eating animal products can have a huge impact in helping maintain that delicate balance that sustains us all.”

With dire consequences for ourselves and future generations, livestock production results in vast amounts of greenhouse gases being released into the atmosphere. It requires increasingly unsustainable levels of precious resources including land, water and energy, and is a major contributor towards global environmental degradation and climate change.
 
The Meat Free Monday campaign has had an incredible response since its launch in 2009, with many of the world’s leading authorities on climate change endorsing meat reduction as an effective way of fighting global warming.
 
The campaign’s new film ‘One Day a Week’, largely funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies and produced in collaboration with French film director Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s Hope Production, amplifies this message using the breathtaking aerial photography with which Arthus-Bertrand has become synonymous.  
 
Narrated by Paul, and with appearances from Paul, Mary and Stella McCartney, Woody Harrelson and Emma Stone, the film describes how the beauty of the planet only exists through a delicate balance of climatic conditions – a balance we are dangerously disrupting through our insatiable desire for animal products.

The film uses Paul's own music – tracks from his 1997 classical music album Standing Stone, as well as an unreleased song called 'Botswana'.  

Meat Free Monday’s aim is to raise awareness and inspire people to make a change in their diets from an easily achievable starting point. 

Watch the film above and find out more about the Meat Free Monday campaign by clicking HERE...