{"id":620,"date":"2021-09-22T00:20:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T04:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/councilgreatlakesregion.org\/2021\/09\/22\/saving-us-a-climate-scientists-case-for-hope-and-healing-in-a-divided-world-book-excerpt\/"},"modified":"2024-11-16T14:04:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T19:04:48","slug":"saving-us-a-climate-scientists-case-for-hope-and-healing-in-a-divided-world-book-excerpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/councilgreatlakesregion.org\/saving-us-a-climate-scientists-case-for-hope-and-healing-in-a-divided-world-book-excerpt\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World – Book Excerpt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Katharine Hayhoe’s 2021 book is aimed at addressing climate change and highlighting the importance of discussing it and becoming educated on the matter. In a multilayered fashion, she touches on how individuals of different backgrounds and beliefs can still come together and fight for the same cause while backing it up with research and personal stories.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Climate solutions are complex and multifaceted. Our response to the challenges climate change poses to our world, our identity, and our way of life are even more so. But the first, crucial step forward is simple. There is one simple thing that we can all do:
Talk about it.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n


A year or so ago I was reminded just how powerful this can be. I\u2019d just finished a lecture at the London School of Economics and was heading up the aisle of the underground lecture hall when an older man named Glyn approached me. He said that he lived in Wandsworth, a borough of London, and had taken the train in specifically to hear me speak. He\u2019d watched my TED Talk called The Most Important Thing You Can Do to Fight Climate Change Is Talk About It, and it had inspired him to have conversations about climate change with people in the borough where he lived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


I was amazed. Hearing that something I\u2019ve done has made a difference\u2014even just to one person\u2014is why I do what I do. I sometimes get discouraged, and his words meant more to me than he knew. But Glyn wasn\u2019t done yet. He\u2019d started keeping a record of all the people who\u2019d joined in with these conversations, he said. \u201cWould you like to see the list?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u201cOf course!\u201d I said, surprised. I\u2019d never heard anything like that before. He reached in his leather satchel and pulled out a stack of papers. I\u2019d been expecting about seventy or eighty names. But his list recorded over ten thousand names. Now it\u2019s upwards of twelve thousand (I checked back in with him before writing this). Twelve thousand conversations about climate change in a single English city borough, all because of one man watching one TED Talk about how important it is that we talk about why climate change matters to us and what we can do about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


And that wasn\u2019t all. His borough had just voted to declare a climate emergency, he said\u2014because of the conversations they\u2019d had. Now, two years on, they\u2019ve also divested from fossil fuels, invested in renewables, and just before COVID they announced they\u2019d be spending \u00a320 million on their new environment and sustainability strategy. You can do what Glyn did: use your voice to talk about why climate change matters to you, here and now. Use it to share what you are doing, what others are doing, what they can do. Use it to advocate for change at every level\u2014in your family, your school, your organization, your place of work or worship, your city or your town, your state or your province. Use it to vote and to inform decisions your school, your business, your city, and your country can make. Talk about it in every community that you are part of and whose values and interests you share.
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Talking may sound simple, almost too simple. But here\u2019s the thing: most of us are not doing it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About the Author<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Katharine Hayhoe is an atmospheric scientist whose research focuses on understanding what climate change means for people and the places where we live. She is\u00a0the Chief Scientist for The Nature Conservancy and a Horn Distinguished Professor and Endowed\u00a0Professor\u00a0of\u00a0Public\u00a0Policy and\u00a0Public\u00a0Law\u00a0in the Dept. of Political Science\u00a0at Texas Tech University.\u00a0Her book, \u201cSaving Us: A Climate Scientist\u2019s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World,\u201d has been released in Sept 2021 and she also\u00a0hosts the PBS digital series Global Weirding,\u00a0currently in its fifth season. Katharine\u00a0has been named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People, the United Nations Champion of the Environment, and the World Evangelical Alliance\u2019s Climate Ambassador.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Book<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Excerpted from Saving Us<\/em>, published by One Signal\/Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Copyright \u00a9 2021 by Katharine Hayhoe. Pages 215-216 Reprinted with permission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book is available from your favorite bookstore or order: https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/Saving-Us\/Katharine-Hayhoe\/9781982143831<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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