Why isn't the climate movement voting? | Nathaniel Stinnett

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🗓️ 1 August 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Millions of people say they care deeply about climate change ... yet they're not showing up at elections to turn their concern into political power, says environmental voting advocate Nathaniel Stinnett. He explains why increasing voter participation is essential to advancing the climate movement and shows how his team is mobilizing millions of new environmental voters — without talking about climate change at all.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
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0:16.8	Climate change is affecting all of us in profound ways all over the world,
0:21.6	and yet only a tiny percentage of voters who turn out to vote
0:24.7	consider it a top priority at the polls. In his 2024 talk environmental voter
0:30.9	project founder Nathaniel Stinnett presses the case for climate concerned Americans
0:35.8	to actually show up at the polls.
0:38.7	And the kind of significant impact higher turnout could make.
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