Will Climate Matter in the Election?

Climate One

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🗓️ 12 June 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

With less than four months before early voting begins in the presidential election, America is enraged and inflamed across the country. People of all races are expressing their anger and solidarity in the streets and on social media. Separately, COVID infection rates are rising in over 20 states including South Carolina, Georgia, Utah and Washington. Still, primary voting continues apace. So how will the turmoil across America impact the November election? How will voters cast their ballots? And how will climate concerns rank amid racial strife and the global pandemic? Visit climateone.org/watch-and-listen/podcasts for more information on today's episode. Guests: Vanessa Hauc, Journalist, Telemundo Jeff Nesbit, Executive Director, Climate Nexus Nathaniel Stinnett, Founder and Executive Director, Environmental Voter Project Additional interviews: Antony Leiserowitz Director, Yale Program on Climate Change Communication Natasha Kennedy, graphic designer in Seattle This program was recorded via live stream on June 3, 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	How will climate rank as a voting issue in November amid racial strife and a global pandemic?
0:08.1	Climate One conversations feature oil companies and environmentalists, Republicans and Democrats,
0:13.3	the exciting and the scary aspects of the climate challenge.
0:17.0	Underwriting for this episode comes from our friends at the Aerole Foundation.
0:21.6	No matter how many people claim that climate matters to them in the election, a huge number of them don't actually vote.
0:28.7	10.1 million already registered to vote environmentalists stayed home for the 2016 presidential election.
0:37.5	10.1 million. Nathaniel Stennett is founder and executive stayed home for the 2016 presidential election.
0:39.0	10.1 million.
0:43.7	Nathaniel Stennett is founder and executive director of the Environmental Voter Project.
0:49.3	He's a veteran campaign operative of races for the U.S. Senate, Congress, and other elected offices.
0:54.9	Apart from self-proclaimed environmentalists, how important is climate to the electorate overall?
0:59.4	For the younger Democratic Party voters, it's either their first, second, or third voting issue.
1:02.8	For centrist Democratic voters, it's somewhere in the middle of the pack.
1:07.0	It's only with right-wing Republican voters that it's dead last.
1:12.2	Jeff Nesbitt is executive director of climate nexus and host of the Climate 2020 podcast.
1:19.6	He served as White House spokesman for Vice President Dan Quayle. Are climate conscious voters more or less a lock for one party?
1:28.5	When you talk about Latinos, most of our community is democratic, but I think we relate to issues and to proposals and to people.
1:33.5	Vanessa Ock is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and anchor of Telemundo Weekends News.
1:38.5	Earlier this year, she was the first climate correspondent to moderate a presidential debate.
1:43.9	I began our conversation by asking her how she's speaking to her audience in this moment of high anxiety.
1:45.4	It's extremely difficult. I think it's a tragic moment for everybody, not only for the African-American
1:51.4	community. What is happening in our country today is tragic for everybody because it's a
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