There is also a great deal of behind-the-scenes pressure from political funders too. And by funders I don't just mean the fossil fuel industry. Many of those exerting pressure on our society to ignore climate change, oppose climate change legislation, and shut down efforts to develop a clean energy economy are doing so out of ideology, not just economics. In the simplest terms, many large industries don't want the government telling them what to do with their businesses and they don't want any restrictions on what they can and cannot do, which includes polluting our shared environment.
Katharine HayhoeWe have to fix climate change with the people we have right now, and to a large extent with the perspectives we have right now as well.
Katharine HayhoeIt's a new normal and I really do think that global weirding is the best way to describe what we're seeing.
Katharine HayhoeWe need a price on carbon that accurately reflects its real costs on our society and our wellbeing.
Katharine HayhoeIf you can frame climate change as an alternate religion, or as one more of those issues where the pointy-headed liberal atheist scientists are trying to discredit the Bible, then you've already got a ton of people on your side who are concerned about heresy, other religions, or teaching evolution in schools.
Katharine Hayhoe