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, in nature, and really

light forest, 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 hurt.

It's notes from America, I'm Kai Wright, and welcome to the show. Here's one thing that's

got me kind of twisted up about the midterm elections. Sometimes it feels like we're

not even having the right debate regardless of who wins the argument, you know? I mean,

it's great and all that there was this clear rejection of election deniers and Christian

nationalists and the like, but boy, does that feel like a low bar? I mean, there are so many

really time-sensitive challenges that sit well past that basic level. And climate change

is probably at the tippy top of that list. Now, of course, just days after the election,

President Biden was in Egypt at the Global Climate Summit, touting investments and making

promises, those promises are nowhere near enough. And in particular, they are barely meaningful

when it comes to the question of how rich nations like ours are going to pay for the climate

destruction already ravaging poorer countries. But by all accounts, there was a global

sigh of relief at that summit when the midterm elections here ticked in. And, you know, hey,

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