- Watch the following video which is taken from a Church in Toronto, Canada. START at the 7:00 minute mark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOJuHpeWoPE
The speaker in the video is named Katharine Hayhoe. She is a PhD climate scientist at Texas Tech University, and she is also a deeply committed follower of Christ. Her husband is a pastor. She has numerous videos where she tackles the polarizing issue of Climate Change and the response of Christians. In order to discuss these topics, she wrote a book with her husband called “A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decision.”
a. Please summarize the video below
b. Discuss what you thought of the video?
c. What is the relationship between loving our neighbor and caring for creation?
- Next, click the following link
(https://applets.kcvs.ca/CarbonStabilizationWedges/stabilizationWedges.html)
This will take you to a carbon emissions simulation. Using the menus at the top, select different values for Energy, Transportation, Land Resources, Buildings in order to lower the future carbon emissions to the point where they do not increase in the future. Make sure that you are choosing options that are “Realistic.”
a. List what values you selected for each option?
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