Community Peace and Justice - from a Faith Perspective
Courageous Conversations: Caring For the Earth – Our Common Home
January 10, 17, 2024
Following the warmest year on record along with record-setting climate disasters, this two-week program will begin with an overview of the issue, featuring a video by Dr. Katherine Hayhoe. Dr Hayhoe is one of the top internationally-recognized climate scientists, chief scientist for the Nature Conservancy and a college professor. As a Christiam (and the wife of an evangelical pastor), she also speaks passionately and persuasively about the importance of creation care for Christians. Our CCOVB Earth Care Team will be featuring many opportunities for action throughout the coming months.
An excellent overview of the Challenge of Climate Change from both a science and Christian Perspetive.
Although presented in 2019 at the Meeting House in Toronto, CA, it is still very relevant. Her presentation begins about 5:50, but the beginning is also interesting.
Each day, the news brings evidence of climate change and how humankind is affecting the world around us. During the upcoming Easter season, Episcopal Parish Network is honored to host a conversation about the challenges we face and the opportunities we have to make a difference.
The Episcopal Church has long recognized the impact of climate change on humanity and is committed to caring for God’s creation. The church calls her people to action and many in our pews wonder how they can make a difference for the world and for the generations to come. Strengthening local ministry includes inviting our lay and clergy leaders to learn ways to have an impact through the thoughtful use of resources – including through the thoughtful use of our economic power.
During this conversation Katharine will share her thoughts on how to create support from the ground up for action around climate change. She will share how the work is progressing and, importantly, how she sees the climate transition gaining head way.
The most important thing you can do to fight climate change: talk about it
Katharine Hayhoe TED Talk – 1/11/2019
How do you talk to someone who doesn’t believe in climate change? Not by rehashing the same data and facts we’ve been discussing for years, says climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe. In this inspiring, pragmatic talk, Hayhoe shows how the key to having a real discussion is to connect over shared values like family, community and religion — and to prompt people to realize that they already care about a changing climate. “We can’t give in to despair,” she says. “We have to go out and look for the hope we need to inspire us to act — and that hope begins with a conversation, today.”
Katharine Hayhoe – PBS Series – Global Weirding
In this series, we’re tackling climate issues head on. How do we know this Global Warming thing is even real? Why do scientists say that humans are causing climate change and not just natural cycles like it’s been every other time, while many politicians say exactly the opposite. Is climate change behind all the crazy weather we see today? Does fixing climate mean we have to shut down the economy? Why are the Pope and the National Association of Evangelicals piling on? Why do climate scientists get so much hate mail? Money and politics, God and global warming, every topic we avoid in polite conversation… We’re going there!
(Each episode is 6-10 minutes in length.)
Katharine Hayhoe’s Website
Katharine Hayhoe’s Book
“Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World”
A Canadian climate scientist living in Texas, she negotiates distrust of data, indifference to imminent threats, and resistance to proposed solutions with ease. Over the past fifteen years Hayhoe has found that the most important thing we can do to address climate change is talk about it—and she wants to teach you how.
In Saving Us, Hayhoe argues that when it comes to changing hearts and minds, facts are only one part of the equation. We need to find shared values in order to connect our unique identities to collective action. This is not another doomsday narrative about a planet on fire. It is a multilayered look at science, faith, and human psychology, from an icon in her field—recently named chief scientist at The Nature Conservancy.
Drawing on interdisciplinary research and personal stories, Hayhoe shows that small conversations can have astonishing results. Saving Us leaves us with the tools to open a dialogue with your loved ones about how we all can play a role in pushing forward for change. (from Amazon)