Disclaimer: I began eating plant-based in 2010. Was never a big meat eater, so it was easy to skip it for weeks or months at a time. I'm like the truthful Seventh Day Adventists (I worked with them in a hospital and saw what they really eat) - a flexitarian.
With that out of the way, there is no doubt we are are at the climate crisis tipping-point, and may well have passed it. AND - reducing our consumption of animal products will be better for the environment. And - stop drinking almond milk which uses an unimaginable amount of water (100 gal water per 1/2 gal almond milk!). The problem with using docs like this as a vehicle to communicate a pathway to reducing greenhouse gases, pollution, micro-plastics, and exhausting the limited fresh water resources in general, is they come across as preachy and the viewer assumes that because it is a "documentary", the data/claims have been vetted, right? Well, no.
As I watched this doc, all I could think of was Seaspiracy, Cowspiracy, and any other "spiracy docs" that take data and skews it to fit a narrative (e.g., The Game Changers). As a scientist, I love fact-checking. This doc shares so much with those previously mentioned: Many of the same key players (not-a-scientist Anthony Robbins, also, not-a-scientist or vegan Richard Branson, not a vegan Kate Winslet) repeating the same claims, almost word-for word, including some of the same false data as Seaspiracy. As I heard the claim that 80% of plastic sea trash in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is fishing equipment, I shook my head in disbelief. I pulled the research paper they quote, and it is a completely false representation of the statement: "at least 46% was comprised of fishing nets" and "86% of the large pieces of floating plastic in the garbage patch are items that were abandoned, lost or discarded by fishing vessels." Sylvia Earle, a real scientist and vegetarian stated, "at least half the plastic in the sea comes from discarded or lost fishing gear. She knows the truth.
Interesting that the vegans who made this doc had trouble finding vegan spokespeople to mouth their "facts".
My point is this: we don't need another preachy faux documentary to motivate people to take action to alleviate this certain crisis. We need voters who will elect politicians who care about a world that will exist long after they are gone. And we need viewers who stop accepting anything that sounds like it must be true as fact. How do you think we ended up with all those Q-Anon followers?