Grace Forum Online with Bob Inglis: Can the EcoRight and the Environmental Left Be Friends?

Can the threat of climate change bring together the political left and right in the United States? In the partisan politics that have become so divisive in our country, climate change is usually seen as a progressive issue, disregarded by conservatives. For those who believe that climate change is a very real threat -- to the world's environment, security, economy, agriculture and people – they know that the world must come together quickly to enact durable solutions before it is too late. Yet how can we build consensus for action globally, when in our own country we remain divided? Tonight's guest, Bob Inglis, is a former member of Congress, and the founder of republicEn.org, a grass roots organization whose mission is to educate, recruit and organize conservative voices for action on climate change. Each year the cathedral chooses a theme for inspiration and reflection, and in 2022 our theme is connection. Join Dean Malcolm Clemens Young for a conversation with Inglis about bringing the right and left in the United States together, and leading the world to solutions on climate change. You can help us bring the arts to life at Grace with a gift today to The Forum. About the Guest Bob Inglis is the Executive Director of republicEn.org. He was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1992, having never run for office before. He represented Greenville-Spartanburg, South Carolina, from 1993-1998, unsuccessfully challenged U.S. Senator Fritz Hollings in 1998, and then returned to the practice of commercial real estate law in Greenville, S.C. In 2004, he was re-elected to Congress and served until losing re-election in the South Carolina Republican primary of 2010. In 2011, Inglis went full-time into promoting free enterprise action on climate change and launched the Energy and Enterprise Initiative ("E&EI") at George Mason University in 2012, later rebranded as republicEn.org. For his work on climate change Inglis was given the 2015 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. About the Moderator The Very Rev. Dr. Malcolm Clemens Young is the dean of Grace Cathedral. He is the author of The Spiritual Journal of Henry David Thoreau and The Invisible Hand in Wilderness: Economics, Ecology, and God, and is a regular contributor on religion to the Huffington Post and San Francisco Examiner.   About The Forum  The Forum is a series of stimulating conversations about faith and ethics in relation to the important issues of our day. We invite inspiring and illustrious people to sit down for a real conversation with the Forum's host and with you. Our guests range from artists, inventors and philosophers to pop culturists and elected officials, but the point of The Forum is singular: civil, sophisticated discourse that engages minds and hearts to think in new ways about the world.  gracecathedral.org/forum.