Hey, this is Kai. You are probably getting tired of this housekeeping note, but I'm going

to give it to you one more set of times this week. We've changed your feed. We're now breaking

up the show in segments. So what you're about to listen to, this is the first segment

this week. Later this week on Thursday, you'll get the second segment. That's how it's

going to go from now on. And if you want to get the whole show, go to our YouTube channel,

go to WNYC on YouTube and you will find the whole show all at once. Okay, that's it. There

you go.

Since you deeply care about climate change, what do you value? What part of your value

system makes you care deeply about the issue? The world of the future may be very different

from the world I grew up in and not in a good way. The belief in the interdependence of

all beings. I've always really been in tune with mountains and nature and I really like

forest, I like to go hiking. In Buddhism, the teaching of interdependence and interconnectedness

really comes to bear both our connections with all other people, then also with people

in the future and people in the past. From our Christian perspective, love of neighbor

and that we are interconnected and that we live in fidelity to God and in faithfulness

to our neighbors by doing those things for the common good. I value what our children

are going to inherit and what our great-grandchildren are going to inherit.

Welcome to the show. I'm Kai Wright and those voices you just heard are from a listening

session that our producer, Regina, to hear held with the Faith Alliance for Climate Solutions,

which is an interfaith climate advocacy organization based out of North and Virginia. It

is a big week in news about the changing climate. Democratic Senator Joe Manchin has finally

found a climate deal he can support. The bill is supposed to be up for a vote later this

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