A conversation with Katharine Hayhoe, an evangelical Christian scientist with a mission to spread the word on the climate crisis and find solutions for the road ahead WomenShapingTheFuture
She’s been inundated with so much hate mail she concealed her email address online, but the hate just shifted to social media, where she blocks as many as 100 people a day. It hasn’t slowed her down. No speaking engagement is too small: living rooms, Rotary Clubs, tiny Baptist colleges. She does about 80 percent of her talks online to lower her carbon footprint.
Yes and no. So I feel that engagement and public scholarship and advocacy and activism is a spectrum. And I think that every person should be free to choose where they feel comfortable on that spectrum. So, for example, for some scientists, the best way they can contribute is by doing their research and helping us understand this world that we live in better.
You live in West Texas, a pretty conservative part of the country, and your husband is a pastor. Do you think that your outspokenness on this issue has affected who joins his congregation? Do you think if a few key leaders among conservatives and evangelicals changed their stance on climate, it would have a huge impact on bringing more people around?
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