How do you talk to someone who doesn’t believe in climate change?

Katharine Hayhoe

11 a.m., May 4, 2025

Each humanist is responsible for the collective welfare of humanity and the resources of our shared planet. Each of us needs to speak out on climate change.

Well, who talks about it?
How can we motivate ourselves and others to talk about it?
How can we speak in a way that will be heard?

Let’s watch and discuss videos of one committed person, presenting the same message, to very different audiences — one secular, and the other evangelical.

How do you talk to someone who doesn’t believe in climate change?
Preview this 17-minute TED Talk:
https://www.ted.com/talks/katharine_hayhoe_the_most_important_thing_you_can_do_to_fight_climate_change_talk_about_it

Preview how Prof. Hayhoe translates the same message to a Fundamentalist Christian audience in this 19-minute video: https://ww.youtube.com/watch?v=i-kCGmx0b7U

Canadian atmospheric scientist Katharine Hayhoe is a Paul Whitfield Horn Distinguished Professor, and an Endowed Chair in Public Policy and Public Law, at Texas Tech University. In 2021, Hayhoe joined the Nature Conservancy as Chief Scientist.

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