HPAC Meeting: Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023, 1:30 pm PST
Robert Tulip has a Master of Arts Honours Degree from Macquarie University in ontology and ethics and a Graduate Diploma in Foreign Affairs and Trade from Monash University. He worked for thirty years in the Australian Public Service in international development, including policy and program management across a number of different sectors and countries, especially in Papua New Guinea. He has been working in climate engineering since 2007, when his work on forests and climate led him to see large scale ocean-based algae production as a decisive technology for climate stability. Robert is an HPAC Steering Circle member. He is collaborating with Stephen Salter on Marine Cloud Brightening.
Robert will be discussing Religion's ambiguous relationship with climate science.
Religion has an ambiguous relationship with climate science. On the one hand, conventional religion tends to promote comforting escapist emotional fantasies, and so has a negative role, deflecting attention from the pragmatic problems of a warming planet and enabling the spread of harmful myths. On the other hand, the religious hope for salvation of the world can be seen in a pragmatic way, helping us to analyse the changes needed to reverse the current trajectory toward civilizational collapse and create a vision of a planetary transformation toward stable and orderly flourishing. Religious framing of central moral values of truth, love and justice can help us to build a brighter world, culturally and physically. My longstanding research interest in the relationship between Christianity and existential philosophy has led me to the view that heretical forms of Christianity can give absolute ethical priority to science, offering vital contributions to political conversation about the climate emergency. My presentation to HPAC will cover material I will discuss in a paper to the XIV International Bonhoeffer Congress in January 2024, on how the thought of the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer relates to existentialism and climate change.
We hope to see you this Thursday.
This will be the last meeting of the year. HPAC will resume meetings on Thursday, January 11, 2024
Best wishes,
Suzanne and the HPAC Steering Circle
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