Dr. Katharine Hayhoe: ...we should be having optimistic conversations about climate change

Nobody Told Me!

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🗓️ 23 December 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Our guest on this episode, well-known climate scientist Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, works tirelessly to promote meaningful conversations on climate change. She says climate action isn’t about being a certain type of person or voting a certain way. It's about connecting the values we already have to act for our future. Dr. Hayhoe is the Chief Scientist of The Nature Conservancy and the author of the book, "SAVING US: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World". Her website is http://www.katharinehayhoe.com/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:13.3	I'm Laura Owens, and I'm Jan Black.
0:15.7	Climate change is one of the most important issues that we face today, yet it's a topic which polarizes people.
0:22.6	Our guest on this episode, well-known climate scientist Dr. Catherine Hayho, says that climate
0:27.7	action isn't about being a certain type of person or voting a certain way.
0:32.4	She says it is about connecting the values we already have to act for our future. Dr. Hayho is the chief
0:39.3	scientist of the Nature Conservancy and the author of the new book, Saving Us, a Climate
0:45.5	Scientist case for hope and healing in a divided world. Catherine, thank you so much for joining us.
0:52.1	Well, thank you for having me. Tell us more about your background and why and when you first became interested in climate change.
1:00.3	Well, I was interested in science from an early age because my dad was a science teacher.
1:06.4	And so I grew up with the idea that science was the most fascinating thing that you could possibly
1:11.8	study because who doesn't want to know how the universe works.
1:14.7	Wow.
1:15.3	Yeah.
1:16.3	So I was actually going to study astrophysics.
1:20.2	And my undergraduate degree is in astronomy and physics when I needed an extra class to finish my degree.
1:25.9	And I looked around and there was this brand new class in climate science.
1:28.6	And I thought, well, that looks interesting. Why not take it? So I had learned about climate change before in school.
1:34.4	And I had learned about air pollution and biodiversity loss and deforestation and other environmental issues that I sort of thought, well, environmentalists care about these and environmentalists work on
1:45.1	them and we just wish them well, so to speak. And I didn't really consider myself and honestly,
1:50.1	I still wouldn't even call myself an environmentalist. And so I thought, well, that's just not me.
1:53.6	That's not what I do. So I took this class and I was completely shocked because that's where I learned
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