Katharine Hayhoe Quotes About Climate Change

Quotes about: Climate Change

• For Christians, doing something about climate change is about living out our faith - caring for those who need help, our neighbors here at home or on the other side of the world, and taking responsibility for this planet that God created and entrusted to us.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Christian, Responsibility, Home

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• There has been a concerted effort to frame caring about climate change and the environment as an alternate religion - one that worships the creation rather than the creator, so to speak.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Caring, Effort, Climate

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• It's easier to discredit the science than to say that climate change is a genuine issue but we don't want to do anything about it.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Climate Change, Discredit

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• It's a new normal and I really do think that global weirding is the best way to describe what we're seeing.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Thinking, Weather, New Normal

  "Floods, Droughts Are ‘New Normal’ Of Extreme U.S. Weather Fueled By Climate Change, Scientists Say". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 19, 2011.

• We don't have a hundred years to fix climate change. We don't have a hundred years to wait until we've built all these bridges and rapport and scientific understanding and so on and so forth. We have to fix climate change with the people we have right now, and to a large extent with the perspectives we have right now as well.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  People, Perspective, Waiting

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• My faith tells me that God does want people to understand climate change and do something about it.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  People, Climate, Doe

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• People have taken advantage of the very well-trodden pathways that divide science and faith on other issues, such as creation, evolution, and the age of the universe, to pigeonhole climate change as yet another variant on the same theme.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Taken, Issues, People

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• The word "evangelist" means someone who spreads good news. Studying the impacts of climate change as I do, it's hard to come up with good news. In many ways I feel more like a Cassandra or a Jeremiah than a good-news evangelist.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Mean, Impact, Climate

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• If you can frame climate change as an alternate religion, or as one more of those issues where the pointy-headed liberal atheist scientists are trying to discredit the Bible, then you've already got a ton of people on your side who are concerned about heresy, other religions, or teaching evolution in schools.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Atheist, Teaching, School

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• There is also a great deal of behind-the-scenes pressure from political funders too. And by funders I don't just mean the fossil fuel industry. Many of those exerting pressure on our society to ignore climate change, oppose climate change legislation, and shut down efforts to develop a clean energy economy are doing so out of ideology, not just economics. In the simplest terms, many large industries don't want the government telling them what to do with their businesses and they don't want any restrictions on what they can and cannot do, which includes polluting our shared environment.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Mean, Effort, Political

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• I don't think there are any churches that have "Thou shalt not believe in climate change" written in their actual statement of faith.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Believe, Thinking, Church

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• We have to reach out to churches and schools and help people understand science, and we have to build rapport between scientists and people of faith. Then once we get that understanding and rapport built, then everyone will be on board with climate change.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  School, People, Understanding

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• It is certainly true that conservative Christians are much more likely to doubt the reality of climate change than mainline Christians or the unaffiliated. But when we control for political affiliation and for the important role of thought leaders in determining our opinions on social issues such as climate change, most of the faith-related bias disappears.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Christian, Reality, Issues

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• I feel that one of the most important things I can do is connect climate change to the values, the faith, and the issues we already care about. And if, in the process, I have to sidestep around some very explosive mines, I will do that.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Issues, Important, Climate

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• I've even had people tell me that I must not be a Christian because I think climate change is real. But you know, there's nothing in the Bible that says that. The sad truth is that our thought leaders - many of them in the conservative media and politics - are the ones telling us this isn't real, and we are believing them.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Christian, Real, Believe

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• My faith is an enormous motivator for me to engage as well, because climate change is not just an issue that affects the entire planet, it is one that disproportionately affects those who do not have the resources to cope with this change - those whom we are explicitly told as Christians to care for.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Christian, Issues, Climate

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• A person of faith who shares conservative values and who says very clearly that climate change is real - and here's why we have to care about it - I think that we "unicorns" do pose a threat to people who want to muddy the waters and keep others in the dark.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Real, Dark, Thinking

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• When I look around, the biggest way in which we are failing to care for those in need is through ignoring climate change and acting like it doesn't exist. As a Christian, I believe that is something the church needs to know.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Christian, Believe, Church

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• We have to fix climate change with the people we have right now, and to a large extent with the perspectives we have right now as well.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  People, Perspective, Climate

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• It's a common perception that science and religion are mutually exclusive. But there are many scientists who would consider themselves to be spiritual people. Not only that, but in the case of climate change - a scientific issue with strong moral implications and difficult decisions to be made - it's essential to connect the science to our values. And for many of us, our values come from our faith.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Spiritual, Strong, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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