Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World

Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World

by Katharine Hayhoe
Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World

Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World

by Katharine Hayhoe

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Overview

United Nations Champion of the Earth, climate scientist, and evangelical Christian Katharine Hayhoe changes the debate on how we can save our future in this nationally bestselling “optimistic view on why collective action is still possible—and how it can be realized” (The New York Times).

Called “one of the nation’s most effective communicators on climate change” by The New York Times, Katharine Hayhoe knows how to navigate all sides of the conversation on our changing planet. A Canadian climate scientist living in Texas, she negotiates distrust of data, indifference to imminent threats, and resistance to proposed solutions with ease. Over the past fifteen years Hayhoe has found that the most important thing we can do to address climate change is talk about it—and she wants to teach you how.

In Saving Us, Hayhoe argues that when it comes to changing hearts and minds, facts are only one part of the equation. We need to find shared values in order to connect our unique identities to collective action. This is not another doomsday narrative about a planet on fire. It is a multilayered look at science, faith, and human psychology, from an icon in her field—recently named chief scientist at The Nature Conservancy.

Drawing on interdisciplinary research and personal stories, Hayhoe shows that small conversations can have astonishing results. Saving Us leaves us with the tools to open a dialogue with your loved ones about how we all can play a role in pushing forward for change.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781982143848
Publisher: Atria/One Signal Publishers
Publication date: 09/20/2022
Pages: 320
Sales rank: 58,187
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Katharine Hayhoe is a climate scientist and chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy. She is also the Endowed Professor in Public Policy and Public Law and Paul W. Horn Distinguished Professor at Texas Tech University. She has been named a United Nations Champion of the Earth and one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People, and serves as the climate ambassador for the World Evangelical Alliance. Katharine was a lead author for the US Second, Third, and Fourth National Climate Assessments, hosts the PBS digital series Global Weirding, and has written for The New York Times. Her TED Talk “The Most Important Thing You Can Do to Fight Climate Change: Talk About It” has been viewed over 5 million times. She has a BSc in physics and astronomy from the University of Toronto and an MS and a PhD in atmospheric science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Section 1 The Problem and the Solution

1 Democrats and Dismissives 3

2 Who I Am 13

3 Who You Are 21

Section 2 Why Facts Matter-And Why They Are Not Enough

4 The Facts Are the Facts 37

5 The Problem with Facts 49

6 The Fear Factor 63

7 The Guilt Complex 73

Section 3 The Threat Multiplier

8 A Faraway Threat 87

9 Here and Now 97

10 No Time to Waste 109

11 The Sickness and the Cure 117

Section 4 We Can Fix It

12 Why We Fear Solutions 131

13 Carbon and the Common Good 143

14 The Climate Potluck 151

15 Everyone Needs Energy 161

16 Cleaning Up Our Act 173

17 Time to Speed Up 185

Section 5 You Can Make a Difference

18 Why You Matter 195

19 What I Do 207

20 Why Talking Matters 215

21 Bond, Connect, and Inspire 225

22 Finding Hope and Courage 239

Acknowledgments 247

Notes 251

Index 299

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