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Greta Thunberg’s Message #ForNature

Mercy for Animals

Environmental activist Greta Thunberg partners with Mercy For Animals to speak out about animal agriculture and highlight its connection to the environmental crisis.

Mentions interdependence, impact on humans (e.g. COVID), empathy, and asks “What will you do?” as a call to action

Brené Brown on Empathy

The RSA (Royal society for arts, manufactures and commerce)

Empathy vs sympathy

What is the best way to ease someone’s pain and suffering? In this beautifully animated RSA Short, Dr Brené Brown reminds us that we can only create a genuine empathic connection if we are brave enough to really get in touch with our own fragilities.

Dominion

Farm Transparency Project

Dominion uses drones, hidden and handheld cameras to expose the dark underbelly of modern animal agriculture, questioning the morality and validity of humankind’s dominion over the animal kingdom. While mainly focusing on animals used for food, it also explores other ways animals are exploited and abused by humans, including clothing, entertainment and research.

Mentions interdependence, impact on humans (e.g. COVID), empathy, and asks “What will you do?” as a call to action

https://www.dominionmovement.com/watch

The Turning Point

Steve Cutts

Ths animated short explores the destruction of the environment, climate change and species extinction from a different perspective (animals and humans flipped).

What animals are thinking and feeling, and why it should matter

TEDxMidAtlantic

Carl Safina takes us inside the lives and minds of animals around the world, witnessing their profound capacity for perception, thought and emotion, showing why the word “it” is often inappropriate as we discover “who” they really are. And yet, we are wiping out the very animals we should celebrate; we are the flood coming for Noah’s Ark. Carl leaves us with a difficult question: Do we have what it takes to let life on earth survive?

Grief and love in the animal kingdom

TED

From mourning orcas to distressed elephants, biological anthropologist Barbara J. King has witnessed grief and love across the animal kingdom. In this eye-opening talk, she explains the evidence behind her belief that many animals experience complex emotions, and suggests ways all of us can treat them more ethically — including every time we eat. “Animals don’t grieve exactly like we do, but this doesn’t mean that their grief isn’t real,” she says. “It is real, and it’s searing, and we can see it if we choose.“

Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? Reprise music video by Moby

Moby

Updated music video to Moby’s ‘Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?’, reflecting what’s happening to humans animals, and the environment and imagining a better world

The Neurochemistry Of Empathy, Explained With Claymation

The RSA (Royal society for arts, manufactures and commerce)

Want to understand the science behind empathy? This quick video explains why and when we care.

https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/the-neurochemistry-of-empathy-explained-with-claymation/

Being with Jane Goodall

NOVA’s Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers

Jane Goodall opens her heart to animals and tells us why we should, too.