Name: Eating Our Way to Extinction: screening + expert Q&A
Start: 2025-10-07T07:30:00+10:00
End: 2025-10-07T10:30:00+10:00
Location: General Purpose South Building (78)

Eating Our Way to Extinction: screening + expert Q&A

🌏 How can we shift to a food system that supports a liveable planet?
Join UQ Vegan Society and UQ Climate & Energy for a thought-provoking doco and discussion on the role of food in climate and ecological breakdown – and what a plant-based transformation could mean. 🌱
🎬 We’ll watch the new 35-minute cut of Eating Our Way to Extinction, followed by an in-person Q&A with climate and land-use expert Gerard Wedderburn-Bisshop, the film’s lead scientific advisor.
📅 Tuesday 7 October, 6.00pm
📍 Room 343, Level 3 General Purpose South (78), UQ St Lucia
🍕 Come early for vegan pizza from 5.30pm in the adjoining study space (Room 341)
🎟 All welcome: invite friends from UQ and beyond
Secure your free spot 👉 campus.hellorubric.com/?eid=39669
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📊 About our guest expert
Gerard Wedderburn‑Bisshop spent over 3 decades monitoring deforestation for the Qld government. He later co‑authored Beyond Zero Emissions’ Land Use Plan, demonstrating how Australia could achieve net-zero land-use emissions and become a carbon sink, and co‑founded the World Preservation Foundation. Gerard was lead scientific advisor for the 2022 documentary Eating Our Way To Extinction, and has recently published peer-reviewed research arguing that animal agriculture has contributed more to global heating than fossil fuels due to outdated emissions accounting and overlooked land use impacts.
🎬 About the film
Eating Our Way to Extinction is a multi-award winning documentary that addresses the contribution of animal agriculture to global threats of ecological collapse and the existential threat to humanity that is climate change. Featuring a cast of world-leading scientific experts, and Kate Winslet as narrator, this documentary is a powerful wake-up call to those uninformed about just how important our dietary choices are as we face the growing threat of a worldwide environmental catastrophe.