Bernice Butler and Co-Host Tony Keene from EarthX, welcome expert Katharine Hayhoe. In this special episode Hayhoe addresses climate-deniers, clean energy, and faith.
Hayhoe dives into energy production, where 75% of our pollution comes from fossil fuels, and the easiest and most impactful way to combat this is clean energy.
However, the richest corporations in the world are currently being subsidized by the tax payer to keep the cost of fossil fuels low. This is a fact that most people don’t realize. Many people think that clean energy is being subsidized because of the rebates we receive when we purchase electric vehicles. In reality, these rebates are 10% of the subsidy that are given to the fossil fuel industry (the International Monetary fund breaks this all down). It all breaks down to fact that big industry is profiting from taxpayer’s money to continue our reliance on an outdated, and frankly dirty way, of producing energy that we have since outgrown.
The bad news about our current energy sectors, 200,000 people day in the USA alone from air pollution, chemicals and dangerous pollutants leach into our streams and waterways and soil every day from the fossil fuel industry causes endless health risks.
The good news, we’re making progress, United airline is running biofuel flights out of LAX. Energy and fuel are straightforward ways to implement clean energy. Other spheres are more complicated, but with a mix of new clean energy technology we can tackle all our energy sectors.
Further, Hayhoe reminds our listeners that the only “type of person” you have to be to care about climate change is a human. We don’t need to move climate change up to the top of our list, because climate change impacts everything on our list already. We must come together on what we already care about, may it be our faith, our jobs or our health, to connect the dots to climate action. For the number one most important thing we can do about climate change is…TALK ABOUT IT.
Hayhoe references her incredible Youtube series Global Weirding, watch her series on nadallas.com, healthylivinghealthyplanetradio.com and of course on her youtube channel.
Community Pulse: General Honoré joins HLHP to speak about climate change, leadership and mobilizing action.
