How the climate movement can build political power 🌎💪🏽 with Nathaniel Stinnett
About this episode
The episode discusses the need for the climate movement to build political power and improve voter turnout among environmentalists.
The environmental movement has a voter turnout problem: 11.2 million environmental voters did not vote in the 2024 election. Over 11 MILLION! That’s over half of the people who say climate/environment is their #1 voting issue. On the one hand: Are you kidding me?! WTF 😖 — especially when elections are often decided by mere thousands of votes. On the other hand: So much room for improvement! So, what can we do about this? Enter Environmental Voter Project . Our guest for this episode is Nathaniel Stinnett , founding executive director of EVP. I’ve been a fan and supporter of EVP since day one. It’s a nonpartisan nonprofit whose entire reason for being is getting non-voting environmentalist to become super voters. ✅ Just imagine the world we could have if those 11+ million Americans actually voted and politicians lived in fear of the enviro voting block. Swoon. So dreamy. In Nathaniel’s words: "What the climate movement needs now more than anything is political power, period. We have a whole bunch of policy solutions. We have a whole bunch of technology. What we are missing is political power." But for me, his real zinger of the episode was: "The fossil fuel industry has convinced…
People in this episode
Host: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Guest: Nathaniel Stinnett
Topics covered
- climate movement
- political power
- voter turnout
- environmental voters
- nonprofit organizations
Keywords
- climate movement
- voter turnout
- Environmental Voter Project
- political power
- environmental voters
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Environmental Voter Project, Democrats, fossil fuel industry
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