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 Environmentalists Don’t Vote. This Group Wants to Change That. “The climate movement doesn’t have a persuasion problem as much as we have a turnout problem,” says Nathaniel Stinnett of the Environmental Voter Project. Elections 2024: How Much Do Voters Care About Climate? BY MARTINA IGINI GLOBAL COMMONS JAN 24TH 2024 2024 will be a pivotal year for democracy, with roughly half of the human population called to the polls. A lot is at stake, especially for the climate. In this article, Earth.Org looks at how perceptions of climate change have shifted in recent decades and how the urgency of addressing the rapidly unfolding climate crisis has fostered a new breed of environmentally conscious voters who are keenly aware that their ballot choices can shape the fate of their planet.  Some 4 billion people – roughly half of the human population – are eligible to vote this year, making 2024 the biggest global election year of all time and a pivotal one for democracy. Beyond their immediate national impact, elections hold significant implications for global stability and the pursuit of sustainable development. As the world grapples with complex challenges such as climate change, social inequality, and geopolitical tensions, understanding the critical role of elections in fostering democracy and maintaining global stability becomes paramount.  Stinnett worked for over a decade as a political campaign adviser in the early 2000s. He and the teams he worked with paid close attention to voter polling, and he was consistently frustrated to see that very few voters listed climate change or other environmental issues as a top priority. In 2014, after managing an unsuccessful mayoral campaign in Boston, Stinnett was taking a break from politics as he and his wife were expecting their first child. “I was just having lunch with a friend of mine who’s a pollster, and we were looking over some data together and something caught my eye,” he recalls. It was a rare poll that broke out both voters’ and nonvoters’ priorities.                                                                                                                                                                                                    Stinnett saw that among the nonvoters, climate change and environmental issues seemed more likely to rank highly. “That just hit me like a ton of bricks,” he says. “Maybe the climate movement doesn’t have a persuasion problem as much as we have a turnout problem.”Stinnett founded his own nonprofit to put a laser focus on that problem. The Environmental Voter Project, or EVP, is now active in 19 states and has participated in over 100 elections just this year. “It is always election day for the Environmental Voter Project somewhere,” he says cheerily.Stinnett and his team use a combination of data science and behavioral science to identify non voting environmentalists and get them to become more consistent voters. He describes the approach as “really, really nerdy.” When he first started the nonprofit, he knew the concept was solid — but “never in my wildest dreams did I think volunteers would be excited by this,” he says. Emily Church, one of the organization’s more than 6,000 volunteers, embraces the nerdiness. She began phone banking with EVP during the 2018 midterm season.“We need to pass meaningful legislation, and we need voters who care about climate change to vote [in order] to get there,” she says. “And it turns out we know how to do that, so let’s just do that.” 

“Even if the election doesn’t turn out the way that you might have wanted it to, if we get 300 people to vote for the very first time, they’re gonna show up again and again and again and start driving policymaking,” he says. “Those are wins. Those are examples of systemic change.”  For example, community organizers on the ground in Georgia, largely being organized by Stacey Abrams and her organizations, registered people to vote at historic rates and also did what they could to fight voter suppression — and in that process, flipped a state that everybody said had no chance of ever flipping, which became the margin of victory for us to get something like the IRA passed.”....read on      https://grist.org/looking-forward/these-climate-advocates-dont-care-about-your-carbon-footprint-they-care-about-whether-you-vote/                                                                                                           And explore these articles.........          Read: a catalog of climate actions that can be joyful — including voting and mobilizing other voters (Grist).......Read: about the Environmental Voter Project’s efforts to expand into more red states (NBC News)..........Read: how Gen Z voters have fueled a new appetite for climate as a campaign issue (Washington Post)..........Read: about how climate impacts are making it more difficult to cast a ballot in some places (Prism)

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Share Show Climate change is depressing, but we’re not! Explore a world of solutions with host Laura Lynch and our team of journalists. We find inspiration in unexpected places, scrutinize new technologies, hold powerful people accountable and join you on the journey to fix this mess. New episodes every Saturday. For Example,,,,check out a podcast on GLOBAL HEATING.......For the ninth straight month, Earth has obliterated global heat records — with February, the winter as a whole and the world's oceans setting new high-temperature marks, according to the European Union climate agency Copernicus. The latest record-breaking in this climate change-fuelled global hot streak includes sea surface temperatures that weren't just the hottest for February, but eclipsed any month on record, soaring past August 2023's mark and still rising at the end of the month, And February, as well the previous two winter months, soared well past the internationally set threshold for long-term warming, Copernicus reported Wednesday.

The last month that didn't set a record for hottest month was in May 2023 and that was a close third to 2020 and 2016. Copernicus records have fallen regularly from June on.February 2024 averaged 13.54 C, breaking the old record from 2016 by about an eighth of a degree....check it out.......https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/warmest-february-climate-change-1.7136294.......and then click on any of the links below for more...... you can also go to the CBC website WHAT ON EARTH and sign up for the weekly podcast.

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How Taco Tuesdays can turn into a chance to save the environment. Good news: Surprisingly small changes can make a big difference in your climate footprint — and have a positive effect on your own well-being too. It’s true that big climate actions are important. Unless society invests in transmission lines, moves from fossil fuels to renewable energy, makes buildings more energy-efficient, improves public transportation and carries out many other structural changes, we will blow past the targets of the Paris Accords. But individual and household actions are also important: In fact, they can contribute roughly 25%–30% of the emissions reductions neededto avoid the worst effects of climate change. And they don’t have to be draconian.These are all relatively simple substitutions that don’t involve drastic lifestyle changes. A study published in October in the journal Nature Food shows that simple substitutions (chicken instead of beef in tacos, for example) can greatly decrease the carbon footprint of a typical U.S. diet while improving dietary quality. Other substitutions, such as cod instead of shrimp, or plant-based instead of dairy milk, can also reduce emissions while enhancing diets. The authors of the study found that lower-carbon foods typically have better “Healthy Eating Index” scores, making them good for you as well as good for the planet. It’s not just on our plates where a simple change can reduce our footprints. Changing your travel routine to avoid one car trip per day can save half a metric ton of CO2 per year. At the same time, alternative transportation like biking, walking can lead to improved fitness and decreased air pollution from automobile exaust.....read on  https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/climate-change-lifestyle-choices-beef-carpool-rcna124449   Note from the webmaster-  Or if you fly, for vacations as so many do, limit it to once a year. Be careful using offsets, but they can be effective- use a good website to calculate your footprint, include the rental vehicle mileage or take a train, and then use the calculated amount that will have the most environmental impact. For example, donate to an NGO that installs solar arrays in third world villages- the outcome will be huge - no trees chopped down for char, no contained unhealthy smoke when cooking or for heat and AC and finally light when it's dark for reading and study!  https://www.honnoldfoundation.org/partner/ceiboalliance?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAz8GuBhCxARIsAOpzk8yqIUIdVZfX0dsdWsQX_9H2cD-rlt3Rf13MJR6paf53x867_ero3FkaAnELEALw_wcB     Completed in October 2020, the two-year pilot programme trialled innovative approaches towards supporting beneficiaries in the deprived counties of Kilifi and Garissa to take up off-grid energy solutions. Designed to integrate into the government’s pre-existing cash transfer scheme for vulnerable households, the programme provided a bi-monthly cash top-up to enable recipients to acquire solar lanterns and solar home systems. 1.4 million off-grid households in Kenya still rely on hazardous fuel-based sources for lighting such as kerosene and candles. The pilot programme studied how solar access improved living conditions and wellbeing as well as its potential for alleviating poverty and boosting income. The wellbeing of children from poor households was a special focus of the programme for UNICEF as energy access enhances their educational and health outcomes.    https://energy4impact.org/news/energy-cash-plus-initiative-%E2%80%98mwangaza-mashinani%E2%80%99-scaled-benefit-more-poor-kenyan-households

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 Picture this — your carbon emissions as plastic straws Barry Saxifrage | Analysis | April 1st 2021I [the author Barry Saxifrage] have littered the equivalent of 15 plastic straws every second, for hours on end, day after day. That's how much climate pollution our family car littered out its tailpipe on the highway.  But I didn't appreciate how shockingly huge my polluting was because I couldn't see it.  Once I started picturing my fossil fuel CO2 as the equivalent amount of fuel plastic litter, it completely changed my understanding of our climate pollution emergency, and my motivation to do something positive about it. Climate pollution's invisibility cloak has allowed Canadians, like myself, to emit dangerously huge amounts without even noticing. Here's a visual carbon tour of what we are doing and some of the plastic litter visualizations I use to make it real to me.Most of us know what the plastic pollution crisis looks like. Roadsides littered with plastic bags, beaches strewn with plastic detritus, and heartbreaking photos of animals choking on, or entangled in, plastic trash. It's a visceral, in-your-face problem. And the quantities are huge — up to 32 million tonnes of it per year, by one estimate. Unfortunately for the continued safety of our species, the climate pollution we are dumping into our air and oceans is a thousand times greater. But this particular form of fossil fuel pollution — CO2 — is invisible to humans. That invisibility cloak has allowed societies, businesses, and individuals to release hugely dangerous amounts, without seeing what we are doing. Out of sight, out of mind and out of control......As my first chart shows, humans are dumping 34 billion tonnes of fossil fuel CO2 pollution into our climate system each year. In comparison, our rampant plastic pollution, as huge as it is, is barely visible on the chart. Humanity's out-of-sight fossil fuel CO2 pollution has grown so massive, it is starting to geo-engineer our planet. Roughly half of what we emit stays in the atmosphere, acting like zombie heat pumps. These pump an additional 400,000 atomic bombs worth of energyevery day into our already destabilized climate system. All that added energy is starting to super-size wildfires, droughts, storms, flooding, extreme heat, and is destabilizing major ecosystems. Roughly a quarter of our CO2 pollution dissolves into our oceans, where it has caused a30 per cent rise in acidity. That's already causing widespread harm to many forms of marine life. And if we continue with business-as-usual fossil fuel burning, within the lifetime of today's kids, ocean acidification levels are projected to reach a level last seen millions of years ago in the Miocene, fuelling a global extinction event. The great Canadian [and American} disconnect.......the stealth mode of CO2 has allowed us to become troublingly disconnected from our actions. Polling shows most Canadians want Canada to be a climate leader. That's heartening and unsurprising. But those polls also show that most Canadians think we are helping lead the way.Our actual CO2 emissions tell a different story. Out of 200 nations, Canada is one of the top 10 worst climate polluters — in both total emissions and per person. But what if we could see our climate pollution?...... — just like we do our plastic pollution? Would we be acting more forcefully to save ourselves from it? In my case, the answer was an unexpectedly compelling "yes."  Here in Canada, the stealth mode of CO2 has allowed us to become troublingly disconnected from our actions. Polling shows most Canadians want Canada to be a climate leader. That's heartening and unsurprising. But those polls also show that most Canadians think we are helping lead the way. Our actual CO2 emissions tell a different story. Out of 200 nations, Canada is one of the top 10 worst climate polluters — in both total emissionsandper person.             https://www.nationalobserver.com/2021/04/01/opinion/picture-your-carbon-emissions-plastic-straws

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Dealing in fossil fuels? These advertisers won’t work for you. By Marc Fawcett-Atkinson Jan.25th 2024 Over 50 Canadian advertisers and PR agencies have joined a 900-strong global group that has pledged not to work for the fossil fuel industry. Founded in the U.S., the Clean Creatives group aims to shine a light on the key and often overlooked role advertisers play in generating and spreading disinformation about fossil fuels and the climate crisis. Some companies have also joined the group, pledging not to hire ad companies collaborating with fossil fuel promotion. Canada has no regulations restricting greenwashing, so fossil fuel interests largely have free rein to push misleading environmental claims — if ad agencies are willing to work for them. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has warned that misinformation is blocking the reduction of emissions and elimination of fossil fuel use. Industry-funded campaigns have long been a major source of this misinformation, pushing false or misleading details about the dangers of fossil fuels and undermining climate policies. Fortunately, fossil fuel companies are "not very good" at actually building effective greenwashing campaigns without help, said Sarah Riley, founder and chief strategic officer for R&G Strategic, a sustainability marketing and communications company and member of the Clean Creatives group. Instead, they typically hire ad and communications agencies to craft their strategies and create the images and illustrations, websites and copy that underpin successful greenwashing campaigns. That is where Clean Creatives comes in: By refusing to work for fossil fuel companies, the group is trying to shrink the pool of ad agencies available to fossil fuel producers, while highlighting the ad industry's role in harmful misinformation.
"Oil companies don't write the comms, that's not what they do," said Duncan Meisel, the Texas-based Clean Creatives executive director. "The people who write it are PR professionals and they're actually very good at what they do."   That role has come under scrutiny in recent years. Ad agencies are increasingly being targeted alongside their fossil fuel-producing clients in lawsuits and campaigns against climate disinformation, said Meisel.Those reputational concerns, combined with increasingly frequent climate disasters hitting the major metropolitan areas where many ad agencies are based, have pushed some to reconsider whether to take on oil and gas producers as clients. Over 50 Canadian advertisers and PR agencies have joined a 900-strong global group that has pledged not to work for the fossil fuel industry.,,,,,read on    https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/01/25/news/dealing-fossil-fuels-these-advertisers-wont-work-you      https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/01/25/news/dealing-

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