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"This book belongs on every animal lover's shelf-and it's a particularly great gift for young people who are on fire to save animals but are unsure where to start. Hooray!!" -Sy Montgomery, author of The Good Good Pig and The Soul of an OctopusThe Animal Lover's Guide to Changing the World is the inspiring, accessible, and empowering book for everyone who loves animals and wants to live a more animal-friendly life, even if they aren't ready to join a movement or give up bacon.
With more than 7.5 billion people on the planet, wildlife is going extinct at the fastest rate since the dinosaurs. Three to four million dogs and cats are killed in shelters every year; billions of chickens, pigs, and cows are killed for food; and countless animals are killed in research labs or their habitat. The numbers are daunting, but there's good news too! Even one person truly can make a difference without breaking the bank.
With Stephanie Feldstein's straightforward and encouraging guidance, readers will learn how to take action to create a better world for the animals we love. It starts with changes as simple as taking a shorter shower, skipping meat once a week, wearing "this" not "that," and extends all the way to online activism and politics.
The animals need us; so let's get on with some world changing!
List of contents
Introduction
PART I: GET POLITICAL
1. The Animals Need You
2. Animal Advocacy
3. Share the Love
4. The Political Beast
5. Money Talks
6. Compassion in the Classroom
7. The Power of Words
8. Find Your Pack
PART II. GET WILD
9. Green Is the New Black
10. Conservation Uncaged
11. Neighborhood Bird-Watch
12. Unplug Climate Change
13. Plastic Detox
14. Down the Drain
15. Take Extinction Off Your Plate
16. Let's Talk About Sex
17. The Call of the Wild
PART III. GET PERSONAL
18. The Animals Aren't Amused
19. Clean Conscience
20. What Not to Wear
21. Old MacDonald Lost His Farm
22. Holiday Hangover
23. Don't Get Catfished
24. If You See Something, Say Something
25. The Ambassador of Dogville
26. Unconditional Love
27. Be the Change
Appendix: Additional Resources
Notes
Index
About the author
Stephanie Feldstein is the Population and Sustainability Director at the Center for Biological Diversity, where she heads a national program that addresses the connection between human population growth, overconsumption, and the wildlife extinction crisis. She created the innovative Take Extinction Off Your Plate campaign, and her work has been featured in
The Huffington Post, NPR,
Salon,
The Guardian,
The Washington Post, and more.
