68. Faith, Science and the Climate Crisis with Dr. Katharine Hayhoe
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
Persephonica
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🗓️ 4 September 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
With over 80% of people on Earth claiming a religious affiliation, it's impossible to imagine solving the climate crisis without major religions taking climate action on as a spiritual exercise of their faith.
and in the US, less than 30% of white evangelicals believe the Earth is warming due to human activity. With only 60 days til the US election, how are evangelical Christians going to vote on climate change? Why is the gospel of climate change failing to reach them?
Dr. Katharine Hayhoe is an award winning climate scientist and endowed professor of public policy and law at Texas Tech University, AND an evangelical Christian. Her incredible work of connecting the dots for believers and non-believers alike when it comes to the intersection of faith, climate, science and politics has earned her the awarded title "Champion of the Earth" from the UN Environment Programme, as well as vitriolic hate-mail from those threatened by her telling the truth.
And, later in the episode we have our first live hip hop music performance from Too Many T's!
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Dr. Katharine Hayhoe
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Too Many T's
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Outrage Figueroiès. |
| 0:15.0 | And my name is Christina Figuères. |
| 0:18.0 | And my name is Paul Dickinson and you are recording aren't you Christina with your head |
| 0:21.0 | yes I am Paul. a seamless beginning this week it's just because we got before we |
| 0:26.2 | had this trouble in it sorry term go ahead this week we talk about faith investors |
| 0:30.9 | climate and religion. |
| 0:32.6 | We speak to Professor Catherine Hayho and we have music from Too Many Tees. |
| 0:37.2 | Thanks for being here. Dickinson you can't ruin my intro like that it's next to me almost my slide |
| 0:49.6 | there was not ruining the intro it was just we go to this thing where Clay checks if everyone was recording and then when he asked Christiano she was recording then she he couldn't we couldn't hear Christian a talk and now it's fixed and we don't know why. |
| 1:00.3 | Wow, but I thought I would check if you know. |
| 1:02.0 | Christina is giving you that slightly quizzical, |
| 1:04.4 | I wonder what on earth he's doing, look. |
| 1:05.8 | I'm wondering when Paul Dickinson is going to stop cascading. |
| 1:09.6 | It is a maleficent. |
| 1:11.2 | You know some people have like the sound of a waterfall in the corner |
| 1:13.4 | they're in one of those machines that goes blah blah blah blah blah. |
| 1:15.3 | It's a little bit like that. |
| 1:16.3 | It's kind of, it's gentle. |
| 1:18.3 | When we first decided to do this podcast with you Paul, I assumed it was inevitability that eventually you'd |
| 1:22.4 | get a better offer and you'd leave us in the ditch and you'd be off. |
| 1:25.4 | I'm waiting. |
| 1:26.4 | How phone number is zero, seven for the UK plus four, four, seven nine, five, eight. |
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