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Can Christianity or Humanism save the planet from climate change? Rachel Mander & Lori Marriott

Unbelievable?

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2022

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

As COP 27 gets underway Justin is joined by Christian climate campaigner Rachel Mander and Humanist activist Lori Marriott. They agree on the science and what needs to be done but have different views about which worldview provides the better moral foundation for the work of climate change action. For Rachel Mander: https://arocha.org/en/about/people/rachel-mander/ For Lori Marriott: https://humanists.uk/humanist-climate-action/ • Subscribe to the Unbelievable? podcast: https://pod.link/267142101 • More shows, free eBook & newsletter: https://premierunbelievable.com • For live events: http://www.unbelievable.live • For online learning: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/training-and-events • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate

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Another really key central tenet of humanism is empathy, so consideration for other humans,

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but it also gives much wider than that. So consideration for every living thing on the planet,

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but also forward in time, so future generations, you know, our children, our children.

0:25.6

As followers of Jesus, we have a Savior who lived on earth and encountered suffering

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and didn't flee from it or ignore it, but was called towards it.

0:39.1

And I think that's very applicable in our current situation of climate change in biodiversity.

0:45.7

You're listening to unbelievable, with Justin Bryanley.

0:48.7

Welcome along to the show, a Christian and a Humanist are in dialogue on climate change today.

0:57.6

That's coming up shortly. I'm Justin Bryanley. This is the show that brings you conversations

1:01.6

that matter every weekend. It's been a busy week for team unbelievable, actually.

1:05.7

Lots of recording dates, as I was joined this past week by US New Testament scholar Justin Bass.

1:11.0

He's been over in the UK and we ended up visiting CS Lewis's house in Oxford,

1:15.9

recording with NT Wright and indeed Justin was part of a show that we were recording for the next

1:22.0

season of the big conversation. So lots of exciting recording and stuff happening this week.

1:27.4

And I'll fill you in a bit more on that later on in the program. But for now, if you want to

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1:44.9

And coming up, of course, in just a few days we've got our live event with Sean McDowell.

1:48.8

Cultural War questions is what we'll be tackling. Sean's a brilliant apologist and speaker.

1:53.4

And he's going to be speaking into the polarising issues of today, LGBT,

1:57.3

pornography, abortion, morality and more. And we'll be taking your questions throughout the whole

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