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"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."--Jacket.… (more)
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The obvious objective of a climate scientist is to set forth the compelling evidence for anthropogenic climate change, the ways in which we must change as a society and as individuals to address the
The perhaps less obvious but foremost objective of the author, however, is to help equip the reader to find ways to persuasively bear witness to what is going on with the climate. In this sense she uses sound strategies for persuasion: identify the primary/foundational principles which govern the person's life and show how the issue connects; find a point of agreement and work from there; build relational trust so that one's witness will be better heard; realize that there will be a committed group of people who refuse to listen, be respectful toward them, but do not let them occupy your head space; instead, invest your energy in those who might still be persuaded by a stronger connection or better witness and strengthen and reinforce those who agree but may not be fully engaged for action.
The author of course wants everyone who reads her work to go forth and "proselytize" about climate change, but the same methodology would be effective for any kind of conversation about closely held matters, including matters of faith.
Highly recommended.
This might explain the reticence to mentioning Global Justice and even the involvement of capitalism in the
I am sure that Katharine Hayhoe has read Kae Raworth; indeed, she quotes her in the book but the author manages to quote from 'Doughnut Economics', without mentioning economics!
This book also tells us that we're doing all that we need to; just not quite fast enough! I don't believe Ms. Hayhoe is so naïve.