Katharine Hayhoe: A leading climate scientist, and an evangelical - Lloyd Mackey h/t Wayne Northey

Chart on the right: How Fossil Fuel Money Made Climate Change Denial the Word of God

Wayne Northey: Sadly, faith and politics have been a toxic mix that has led to enormous denialism (like Holocaust deniers) in the Plymouth Brethren/evangelical communities Hayhoe was raised in. Her appeal to Christians to embrace what Catholics call “a preferential option for the poor” is to be noted over against for instance the depiction of evangelical deniers in this article: “How Fossil Fuel Money Made Climate Change Denial the Word of God“.

A recent interview, “‘This is not going to end well’: Author Barbara Kingsolver on climate change“, by Anna Maria Tremonti on The Current program (CBC – Canadian Broadcasting Commission) underscores the dire emergency. In it we learn that annually now, we humans voraciously use 125% of the earth’s resources. This is utterly unsustainable – and will have catastrophic consequences on just about every scale, from continuing extreme climate blow-outs to gargantuan flooding of coastal cities to greatly exacerbated international conflicts, amongst other disasters.

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