New book on climate looks back on 50 years of calls for change
Physicist Paul Carr writes in his latest book, “Ask not what our Earth can do for you, Ask what you can do for our Earth.”
While the message seems timely, it carries values that Carr has communicated to those within and outside of science and religion circles for decades. In fact, Containing CLIMATE CHANGE to Save Us, offers up a historic retrospective on calls to protect the environment and how we arrived at the shared challenges of today. The independently published book is now available on Amazon.
Carr offers up a 50-year retrospective of enabling economics, theology and new technology to save ecology. Carr, a long-time member of the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science (IRAS), has written and given numerous presentations regarding climate change including organizing a conference on the topic in 2017, “The Wicked Problem of Climate Change.”
At the IRAS conference, scientists, theologians and clergy discussed the book Drawdown’s 100 Ways of Reversing Global Warming. Twelve conference papers were published in Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science (July 2018).
“Some may remember waiting in line for hours to fill their gasoline tanks during the 1974 oil shortage. Gas prices increased from $.30 per gallon to over $1.00,” he writes. “Did anyone realize we had to toil against oil? In 1988, climate scientist Dr. James Hansen testified to Congress that burning fossil fuels are warming our planet. We must toil so we won’t boil.”
He added that he debated climate change critics dating back to 2011. He said hehopeshis presentations and papers included in the book will increase understanding and inspire others to act now to save life on “our beautiful blue planet.”
Susan Barreto
Susan is an author with a long-time interest in religion and science. She currently edits Covalence, the Lutheran Alliance for Faith, Science and Technology’s online magazine. She has written articles in The Lutheran and the Zygon Center for Religion and Science newsletter. Susan is a board member for the Center for Advanced Study of Religion and Science, the supporting organization for the Zygon Center and the Zygon Journal. She also co-wrote Our Bodies Are Selves with Dr. Philip Hefner and Dr. Ann Pederson.