Halton Environmental Network (HEN) is welcoming in a big guest for a virtual discussion.
Katharine Hayhoe is a climate scientist, a professor at Texas Tech University, and Chief Scientist for the Global Organization of Nature Conservancy, also known as Nature United in Canada. She will be discussing her book ‘Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World’.
It was chosen as the 2021 pick for the HCCReads. In a release, HEN describes HCC Reads:
“HCC Reads aims to engage our community in climate discussions. Last year, 2,800 Halton residents were engaged in the initiative. HCCReads is a program of the Halton Climate Collective, created and driven by the Halton Environmental Network, and in partnership with Halton Hills Public Library, Oakville Public Library, Burlington Public Library, Milton Public Library, Greening Sacred Spaces: Halton-Peel and Halton District School Board.”
Hayhoe talks about what she’d like the reader to get from her book.
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A Fridays for Future group in Milton has routinely held events and strikes to create awareness for the fight against climate change. The group sees students gather together. Hayhoe says it’s great to see young residents
Many residents may be worried about climate change and the effects it is currently having on our planet, as well as the effects that will worsen if action is not taken. Hayhoe goes over what the average resident can do to help combat climate change.
When asked if she had any doomsday timeline or deadline when it came to climate change, she says that it doesn’t work like that. There is no finite amount of carbon emissions, that once reached, is an endgame. She compares it to smoking cigarettes. It’s not like if you smoke 999 cigarettes that you’re any better or worse than if you smoke 1000. It’s a gradual process of carbon emissions that has caused climate change – and why it’s important to take action (and many actions) to help reverse it.
Professor Hayhoe is the most followed climate scientist on Twitter:
Is #COP26 enough? No. Did anyone expect it to be enough? I sure didn't; this is a more ambitious effort to work together than anything we humans have ever, ever accomplished. But is it more than we had 2 weeks ago? YES. And there's a lot more to be done; so let's get on with it!
— Prof. Katharine Hayhoe (@KHayhoe) November 13, 2021
You can find her book online at your local library, as well as:
- A Different Drummer Bookstore, 513 Locust Street, Burlington;
- IndigoSpirit, 280 Guelph Street, Georgetown;
- IndigoSpirit, 1180 Steeles Avenue East, Milton; and,
- IndigoSpirit, 485 Trafalgar Road, Oakville.
You may have seen Prof. Hayhoe recently on Live with Jimmy Kimmel. Watch her interview here.
If you’d like to register for the virtual discussion, click here. It is on Thursday, November 18th at 8:00 p.m..
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