Nice to see some friends and fellow climate workers quoted in and contributing to this article. Climate change is a really bad reason to get divorced. Katharine Hayhoe, a leading climate scientist, recalled the trial she and her husband Andrew, an evangelical Christian pastor, faced when they discovered they werent on the same page about global warming. After a number of intense discussions, mediated by shared values and beliefs, their marriage persevered. Andrew accepted the overwhelming scientific evidence, and they even went on to co-write a book for Christians on climate change. But in evangelical churches across the U.S., a faith community to which Hayhoe herself belongs, many pastors and parishioners continue to perceive an incompatibility between their faith and the climate science. This kind of dissonance is unnecessary, according to Hayhoe, and an unhealthy roadblock to much-needed action. The [climate change] issue is not inconsistent with Christian values, Hayhoe, director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University, told The Huffington Post. In fact, Christian values demand we take action. Climate change disproportionately affects the poor and vulnerable -- the very people Christians are called to care for and love. That the poor bear the brunt of global warmings effects, from food insecurity to waterborne diseases, is one of the key takeaways from the United Nations latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, released this week. The same theme emerges in a new Showtime series, Years of Living Dangerously, set to premiere April 13. Co-produced by James Cameron and starring celebrities including Harrison Ford and Matt Damon, the documentary addresses the entanglement of politics, faith and science that impedes acceptance and action on climate change. Read More: huffingtonpost/2014/04/05/climate-change-evangelicals-poverty-health_n_5088537.html Dont miss Years of Living Dangerously at 350.org/watch-years on April 13th at 10pm PT.
Posted on: Sun, 06 Apr 2014 23:48:22 +0000
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