Compassionate Food Systems for Planetary Healing
Compassionate Food Systems for Planetary Healing
Available for self-study on Monday, August 4, 2025.Course 2020
The global food system is the single largest contributor to the ongoing ecological crisis and humanitarian crisis, impacting every one of the six planetary boundary transgressions that the Stockholm Resilience Center identified in 2023. This necessitates a transformation to a compassionate food system that meets the nutritional needs of all human beings while ensuring that these planetary boundary transgressions are mitigated. In this class, we will examine the architectures of compassionate food systems and how they can be implemented as the foundation of a holistic transformation from the climate heating phase to the climate healing phase of our civilization.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Understand the Urgency: Articulate the critical need for transforming food
systems to address ecological crises and social injustices, including the
implications of animal agriculture on planetary boundaries and human health. - Define Compassionate Food Systems: Explain the principles of a
compassionate food system and its potential to provide nourishing food for all
while operating within the limits of planetary boundaries. - Analyze Implementation Strategies: Assess the political and economic
transformations required to implement compassionate food systems effectively. - Facilitate Transformation: Identify grassroots initiatives and strategies to
overcome resistance and facilitate the transition to a compassionate food
system.
Course Details
4 hours Self-Study (Professor available by appointment in office hours)Learning Area
Social Justice Instructor
Sailesh Rao
Dr. Sailesh Rao is the Founder and Executive Director of Climate Healers, a non-profit dedicated towards healing the Earth's climate. He is an environmentalist by occupation and systems engineer by profession. He invented the protocol for transforming early analog internet connections to more robust digital connections, while accelerating their speed ten-fold. Still today, any data accessed on the internet likely passed through a device implementing this protocol.
He is also a Human, Earth and Animal Liberation (HEAL) activist, husband, dad and since 2010, a star-struck grandfather. He has promised his granddaughter, Kimaya, that the world will be largely Vegan before she turns 16 in 2026, so that people will stop eating her relatives, the animals. He has faith that humanity will transform to keep this pinky promise to Kimaya's generation, not just for ethical reasons, but also out of sheer ecological necessity. He has been championing the Vegan Rewilding solution to our global environmental, health and ethical crises since 2009.
He is also a Human, Earth and Animal Liberation (HEAL) activist, husband, dad and since 2010, a star-struck grandfather. He has promised his granddaughter, Kimaya, that the world will be largely Vegan before she turns 16 in 2026, so that people will stop eating her relatives, the animals. He has faith that humanity will transform to keep this pinky promise to Kimaya's generation, not just for ethical reasons, but also out of sheer ecological necessity. He has been championing the Vegan Rewilding solution to our global environmental, health and ethical crises since 2009.
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