27 Quotes by Katharine Hayhoe

For Christians, doing something about climate change is about living out our faith – caring for those who need help, our neighbors here at home or on the other side of the world, and taking responsibility for this planet that God created and entrusted to us.

Natural gas is a very flexible source of energy that can help us bridge the gap between our current high-carbon economy and our zero-carbon future.

Our carbon emissions have to eventually go to zero. We have to. Otherwise we’re never going to have a stable climate and that’s what our goal is for human civilization to thrive, a stable climate. We don’t want one that’s hotter, we don’t want one that’s colder, we want one that’s stable.

It’s a new normal and I really do think that global weirding is the best way to describe what we’re seeing.

If we smoke, there’s no magic number of cigarettes, or number of years, that we can smoke before we know we’ll get lung cancer.

There has been a concerted effort to frame caring about climate change and the environment as an alternate religion – one that worships the creation rather than the creator, so to speak.

I don’t have to change the world all by myself, I just need to partner in the work God wants us to do.

I don’t think there are any churches that have “Thou shalt not believe in climate change” written in their actual statement of faith.

When I talk to my neighbor, or to someone at church who doesn’t accept that the planet is changing, I know that they don’t know any better. They’ve been told this information by somebody they trust and it’s not their fault. They’ve just never heard otherwise.