Katharine Hayhoe on Hope and Healing
b"Despite her identity as an evangelical, climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe doesn't accept global warming on faith; she crunches the data, analyzes the models, and helps engineers, city managers and ecologists quantify the impacts. In her new book, Saving Us: A Climate Scientist\\u2019s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World, Hayhoe argues that when it comes to changing hearts and minds, facts are only one part of the equation.\\xa0\\n\\u201cThe biggest problem we have is not the people who willfully decide to reject 200 years of basic science,\\u201d she says. \\u201cThe bigger problem is the number of people who say, \\u2018it's real\\u2019 but they don\\u2019t think it matters to them.\\u201d\\nHayhoe says we need to find shared values with others to drive conversations and collective action on climate disruption.\\nGuest:\\nKatharine Hayhoe, climate scientist and chief scientist, The Nature Conservancy; author, Saving Us: A Climate Scientist\\u2019s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"