Katharine Hayhoe’s new book is a conversational, first-person narrative that melds the social science around climate change attitudes and communication into a framework and set of stories that readers can access and relate to.
Climate Change
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Cryptocurrency has taken the idolatry of wealth to a new level of sinfulness
Cryptocurrency is our culture’s idolatrous golden calf. We need to save ourselves (and our planet) from its empty promises.
Posted inFaith, Features
Taizé, a musical monastic community, formed in response to a global crisis. Today, it faces new ones: climate change and sex abuse.
Today, in any given year, Taizé attracts tens of thousands of young people from around the world, who travel as pilgrims to this hilltop in France to meet one another, to sing and pray and to discuss what they feel are the most urgent issues of their time, from the climate emergency to refugees.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
It’s not easy being green: Ireland is failing to respond to the climate crisis
Movies set in Ireland rarely omit the trope of the aerial shot of rolling green fields. After all, it is the Emerald Isle. Or is it?
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Netflix’s ‘Don’t Look Up’ shows us how not to make a climate change movie
In the end, what undermines “Don’t Look Up” is exactly what it condemns: a lack of humanity.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
We know what caused the Colorado fire—and we need to say it: Climate change
My neighbors lost homes because our political and economic institutions have failed to respond to a crisis they have long known was coming.
Posted inNews Analysis, Politics & Society
Stories from 2021 that Pope Francis wished you would have read
Here’s a rundown of some of the issues the pope tried to keep at the forefront of the news in 2021 and articles about them you may have missed.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Analysis: COP26’s ‘Glasgow Climate Pact’ is a flawed deal that has satisfied nobody
Glasgow was meant to deliver what Paris had begun. Instead, as its last days ground on, discontent and disappointment were rising.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
COP26 did not go far enough. It’s time to take the Pope Francis-approach to climate change.
The climate summit in Glasgow only reminds us that the Paris Agreement is weak and overly dependent on market incentives. The Catholic Church and “Laudato Si’” provide a better foundation for real change.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Can we please stop idolizing the decadent lifestyles that are destroying our planet?
Ivy Getty’s extravagant wedding was designed to make us jealous. We need to find more climate-friendly experiences of FOMO.