41. Katharine Hayhoe on Her Book, Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World

In this episode we talk with Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, author of the new book Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World. Katharine offers encouraging, practical advice about how to engage in conversations about earthcare and climate change with the people in our lives, finding common ground and avoiding politicized terms that can derail conversations. This interview was conducted before a live online audience, and was cosponsored by Village Books and the North Cascades Institute.

Guest: Dr. Katharine Hayhoe - climate scientist
Dr. Hayhoe's book: Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World
Dr. Hayhoe's website: KatharineHayhoe.com
Dr. Hayhoe's Tiktok account 

Mentions: 

• 2/3 of major cities within a few feet of sea level - UN Fact sheet (see page 6) 
• 86% of people not talking about climate change - Yale Climate Opinions Map 
• Washington State Ferry Electrification Plan 
• Washington state governor Jay Inslee 
• Carbon emissions from ferry system
• AP article on the effect of warming stream temperatures on salmon 
• Yale Program on Climate Change Communication 
• Yale study on dismissive, alarmed, concerned, cautious, disengaged and doubtful populations 
• Science Moms website 
• Survey on young people's anxiety about climate change 
• Greta Thunberg - School Strike for Climate 
• Infrastructure bill in US Congress - current status (10/19/2021); Congress.gov's status tracker for H.R. 3684 
• The Nature Conservancy 
• The Nature Conservancy's link to tell your congresspeople to support the Infrastructure bill 

Original interview sponsored by: Village Books in Bellingham, WA and The North Cascades Institute

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