This is the first day of the United Nations COP30 climate conference in Belem, Brazil, and word is that there are already squabbles about the agenda.
I'm glad that I heard climate scientist Professor Katharine Hayhoe on CBC The Sunday Magazine yesterday in advance of what may be a confounding week. Hayhoe is a Canadian living and teaching in Texas, and she is a Christian married to an evangelical pastor. Once again, she was clear, honest, and hopeful about the climate crisis.
She said a lot that was helpful but several things really grabbed me:
saving nature and addressing climate change are inextricably linked
climate change isn't a separate bucket at the end of the row of various buckets of pressing issues that governments need to address, it is the hole in every bucket, and those holes are getting bigger
we must transition entirely off fossil fuels, and seven countries have already done so
hope is more than emotion, it is a practice
The tug-of-war over the COP30 priorities and outcomes may end up being discouraging, but consider the alternative.
Please, please listen to this interview with Dr. Hayhoe, a Christian who understands climate science and practices hope because of her faith.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday/the-sunday-magazine-november-9-2025-9.6970906
2 comments:
It is pertinent to see that Brazil is drilling for oil off shore right now, just as the COP starts ! I can never figure out why all this money goes into more oil drilling instead of developing clean energy sources, as a few European countries have done successfully. Why can we not take a page from their text books ?
Yes, Brazil's response to the climate crisis is indicative of the disconnect of so many nations, Judy. Yes, climate change is real. No, we won't change our foolish ways.
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