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	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
Original language
English
Categories
Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning

SAVING US

Katherine Hayhoe

A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World

How can we defuse extremism, spur positive action, and win allies in the fight against climate change? Ask United Nations Champion of the Earth Katharine Hayhoe.

As a Canadian living in Texas, climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe has learned how to successfully navigate the political minefield of the climate change debate. She negotiates skepticism of the science, indifference to the harmful impacts, and resistance to the actions needed to avoid those risks. Rejecting scare tactics or guilt trips, Katharine engages with the cautious and the doubtful by finding shared values - and she says you can, too.

In Saving Us, Hayhoe shares her journey in talking about climate. The result is an engaging look at science, faith, and human psychology, without the political theater. Katharine argues that alarmism around climate turns off the undecided and promotes hopelessness among those who want to bring about change.

Hayhoe focuses on achievable actions society and individuals can all take to address climate change: Carbon Taxation, buying local, small changes in areas like pet feed, house lighting, and "smart" appliances. She presents bigger, systemic changes as opportunities rather than as abstract policy and budget lines: identifying entrepreneurs innovating in carbon sequestration, geo-friendly electricity generation and transportation solutions, breakthroughs in geoengineering, etc.

With warmth and humanity, Katharine shows how all of us can, and why all of us must, play a role in saving our future.

Katharine Hayhoe is a climate scientist and professor in political science at Texas Tech University, where she directs the Climate Science Center. She is also a lead author for the US National Climate Assessment and host of the PBS digital series Global Weirding. She has been named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People," Fortune's "50 Greatest Leaders," and Foreign Policy's "100 Leading Global Thinkers."

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Book Published 2021-09-21 by One Signal/Atria

Comments

Saving Us offers a roadmap to transform our approach to tackling climate challenges from sprawling global crises to community-driven solutions, recognizing that our diverse and collective voices are key to creating lasting change.

As far as heroic characters go, I'm not sure you could do better than Katharine Hayhoe.

In SAVING US, climate scientist Katherine Hayhoe teaches all of us how open hearts and minds to the truths of climate change. Talking about global warming with our own family and friends is one of the most important things we each can do, creating a shared understanding, rooted in empathy, to motivate action.

A masterful playbook exploring why past approaches have failed, and how we can all help get it right. In this climate emergency the global fire alarms are still muffled for many; Katharine Hayhoe empowers us to turn up the volume to 11.

Dr. Hayhoe writes personally and persuasively - as a person of faith and a as a scientist - about both the peril of the climate crisis and why we can still have hope. With clear vision, Saving Us gives us the tools to have serious and sustained conversations about the climate.

Amazing New Yorker profile of Katherine Hayhoe Read more...

Katharine Hayhoe intertwines stories, including her own, with scientific snapshots to provide a powerful blueprint for how we can talk to others about our changing planet. SAVING US is bold and pragmatic- and a vital contribution to the discussion on climate change.

There are lots of brilliant climate scientists in America, and some are able to communicate capably to non-scientists. But none of them are quite as clear or as forceful as Dr. Katharine Hayhoe when it comes to telling everyday Americans the truth about climate change. She's one-in-a-million.

A must-read if we're seriious about enacting positive change from the ground up, in communities, and through human connections & human emotions. Read more...

NL: Uitgeverij Kok

Those of us who see climate science clearly can become too despairing and too angry. SAVING US reminds us we need to start from a place of love, open-mindedness and respect. Katharine is the rarest of gifts to our troubled world, equipped with the mind of a scientist and the heart of a saint. This is the book we all need.

Katharine shares an optimistic outlook on what we all can do to move the needle toward solutions and invite allies under the big tent.

Practical advice abounds in this compassionate guide to conducting meaningful discussions about the environment... those in search of a hope-filled approach will find plenty of encouragement.

SAVING US contains profound insights on human behavior, and it shows us how our conversations can launch us on the journey away from despair toward awareness and engagement. A real joy to read.

Before you book a flight to Mars, read this book. Conversations fueled by respect and shared values can help save our planet, and Katharine Hayhoe gives us the confidence to do what it takes.

Saving Us is a uniquely hopeful approach to the conversation on climate change. Katharine Hayhoe's expertise is on full display both in the way she talks about the science, and in the wealth of ideas she offers for how we can overcome over divisions, but her core argument is simple: we need to talk more with each other.

It's not an exaggeration to say that Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World is one of the more important books about climate change to have been written. Much of the literature to date feeds the appetite of readers who are already interested in the issue, but this book by Katharine Hayhoe, an internationally renowned climate scientist, could result in a massive expansion of interest in the subject. Read more...

Saving Us provides the transition from the mind to the heart. And it takes a communicator like Katharine Hayhoe to draw connections between the scientific facts and our hope for healing a fragmented world.

I've seen [Katharine] speak in person and it was electrifying and probably the most powerful moment I've ever experienced in the climate movement. This book will be worth every second you spend reading it.