Once again, here is climate scientist Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, this time speaking on - what else - climate change, especially what it means at the local (personal) scale.
And here she is talking about faith and climate change.
Here is a link to the book that Hayhoe and her husband, Dr. Andrew Farley, wrote: A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions.
A preview:
Bike to work. Hug a tree. Eat granola. Live off the grid. Wear hemp. Bathe in a stream. And worship the earth.
Go ahead. Label us - just because we think global warming is a serious problem that you should know about.
But here's who we really are.
We're Christians. We don't worship the earth. We worship the Creator of the universe. We believe that God spoke the world into existence and sustains it by His power. We believe that Jesus Christ is the way to eternal life, that the Bible is God?s Word, and that nothing compares to the importance of the gospel message.Now, for what we don't believe. We don't believe the universe came into existence through random chance. We don't believe that life came from nothing or that humans evolved from
apes.
We believe in common sense. We believe in the sensible progression from older to newer technologies. Yes, we live in a house with air conditioning. We drive cars. We don't have solar panels on our roof (too expensive), and we're not vegetarians (meat is just too tasty).
Don't worry - we're not going to try to convince you that Earth is four billion years old or that it's young, but with the appearance of age. Even we, the authors, disagree on that one.
Climate change is about thermometers and temperatures. It's about what's been happening on our planet since the Industrial Revolution. It's Chemistry 101. Now, can we talk about global warming?
My work is done for today.
"He who has Art and Science also has religion, But those who do not have them better have Religion." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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