Climate Silence: Why Aren’t There More Votes?

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4.7 • 583 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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After a year of climate-amplified fires and hurricanes around the country, New York Times reporter Trip Gabriel tells host Greg Dalton how climate and energy issues are playing in the midterm elections. Nathaniel Stinnett, founder of the Environmental Voter Project, describes what his organization is doing to mobilize the more than 10 million Americans who cite environmental protection as a core value but who don't vote regularly. And Sam Arons, Director of Sustainability at Lyft, explains how his company is encouraging its employees and customers to get out and vote. Guests: Trip Gabriel, political reporter, The New York Times Nathaniel Stinnett, Founder & Executive Director, The Environmental Voter Project Sam Arons, Director Sustainability Lyft Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	How are climate and energy issues playing with voters and non-voters in the upcoming elections?
0:13.0	Welcome to Climate One, changing the conversation about energy, economy, and the environment.
0:19.0	Climate One conversations with oil companies and environmentalists,
0:22.3	Republicans and Democrats, are recorded at the Commonwealth Club of California
0:25.8	and hosted by Greg Dalton.
0:35.4	I'm Devin Strolovich.
0:37.3	Climate-conscious voters don't have a great track record at the ballot box.
0:40.3	When we poll environmentalists who we know aren't voting,
0:45.3	the overwhelming majority of them lie their pants off.
0:49.3	Nathaniel Stennett founded the Environmental Voter Project in 2015.
0:53.3	EVP's mission is to increase demand for progressive environmental policy
0:58.0	by turning inactive environmentalists into active voters.
1:02.0	Stennett will tell Greg how the group works to get out the climate vote.
1:06.0	Regardless of where you live, what your political views might be,
1:09.0	this is really about helping everyone participate in our democracy.
1:13.9	Sam Arons is Director of Sustainability at the RideHale Company Lyft,
1:17.4	which is part of a coalition of companies, including Patagonia and Levi's,
1:21.3	that are encouraging their employees and customers to vote this year.
1:24.6	We'll hear how that civic engagement effort aligns with their own corporate
1:27.7	sustainability work. But first, Greg talks to New York Times reporter Trip Gabriel to find out how
1:33.3	the recent fires, floods, and hurricanes have, or haven't, been playing on the campaign trail.
1:39.3	Trip Gabriel, welcome to Climate One. Glad to be with you. So as we approach the midterms with me to lots of hot-button social issues, how is energy
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