Why are evangelicals missing in action on climate change? (with Bruce Huber)

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🗓️ 9 December 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Climate change is a major long term threat to our world. Yet, we find very few evangelical Christians voices or mass engagement on this issue. Why this disturbing gap? To explore this question, Curtis is joined by Bruce Huber who teaches about environmental law as Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame. Together, they explore the deep reasons why many Christians struggle even to make proper sense of climate change.

Laudato Si' -- Pope Francis's 2015 encyclical on "Care for our Common Home"

The website of Jonathan Haidt -- see especially "The Righteous Mind"

The website of the IPCC -- the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which acts as a sponsor of and clearinghouse for climate research

An accessible book about carbon taxation, "The Case for a Carbon Tax," by Prof. Shi-Ling Hsu of Florida State University

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0:00.0	The Welcome to the Good Faith Podcast. I'm your host Curtis Chang and the Good Faith Podcast is a production of
0:21.7	Redeeming Babble and it's where friends who follow
0:24.4	Jesus help each other make sense of the world.
0:28.4	And a huge thing affecting our world at a massive scale is the problem,
0:34.2	the challenge, the threat of global warming, of climate change.
0:38.8	Here on the Good Faith Podcast, we talk a lot about big picture topics,
0:41.8	about the war in Ukraine about race the
0:43.9	great de-churching political polarization I'm confident in 50 years we'll step
0:48.8	back and all of those issues will pale insignificance to how we responded to the threat of climate change.
0:57.1	And yet, if you've been a listener to the Good Faith Podcast over the entirety of its two-year history.
1:03.0	In fact, just clocked our 100th episode very recently.
1:07.0	Among all that 100 episodes, there is not a single podcast that directly covers climate change.
1:13.2	I've dropped mention to it as an issue that I care about,
1:16.2	that I think is important, but we haven't focused one episode on this.
1:21.2	And the fact that we haven't actually is part of the diagnosis of the problem
1:26.1	because it's not been for lack of desire on my part or lack of belief that this is a critical issue. I have struggled to find a guest
1:34.4	that could represent at a public intellectual level,
1:38.2	who could combine the knowledge of the science
1:41.1	with the issues to speak as a scientist slash public
1:45.8	intellectual on this issue. That's what I felt like I needed on this conversation.
1:49.9	And I've been searching for that person and I get one name that comes back to me quite often
1:55.2	her name is Catherine Hayho.
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