Benji Backer, president of the American Conservation Coalition, testifies about climate change during a U.S. House hearing in 2019.Benji Backer, president of the American Conservation Coalition, testifies about climate change during a U.S. House hearing in 2019.Think"climate change activist" and a young, liberal student may come to mind.showed climate change is the top issue for Democratic voters. For Republicans, it barely registers overall, but there is a growing generational divide.
Some of these young conservatives are starting environmental groups and becoming climate activists. And now they're pushing their party to do more.in 2017, after his freshman year in college, and says his love of nature comes in part from his family. "They were Audubon members, Nature Conservancy members. But they were conservative, and I grew up not thinking that the environment should be political at all," says Backer.
Yet these days, environmental politics dominates his life. From now until the November election Backer is driving an electric car across the country, talking about his group's climate agenda and posting videos along the way.
No, if it was a major issue for the DNC this wouldn’t be the case. They’re all frauds.
well done BenjiBacker
We just lost our entire town to climate change.
My advice for youth on climate change: buyasweater
Climate change is for cultists
Climate change isn’t partisan. Good on young voters for engaging with this serious topic from all sides.
This statement is accurate in that the US military is widely considered the biggest polluter in the world.
To put in a form that fundies might understand, it is like Pascal might say: if climate change is real, and you address it, what have you lost? But if climate change is real and you ignore it, you have much to lose.
But the climate-concerned Republicans vote for climate-denier Republicans. So....what does it matter what they think. They've made their deal with the devil.
Anyone notice bitcoin is doing great lately? And what are alt-coins? Someone should do a story on those
This is a world wide overpopulation problem...though the earth’s climate has and will always change. Has been for billions of years.
So they wanna keep developing countries poor?
it's because old people know they will be dead before the really horrible shit starts happening and they are evil selfish assholes
What happens to the extremely hot air from the west coast (fires) hits the polar vortex in the midwest? 🤔
The young (R or D) are easily swayed by emotional arguments, and have not had sufficient life experience in evaluating cost/benefits, understanding that paying for X means no money for Y, assessing the unstated agenda of those pushing policy. I have no real excuse for older Ds.
That's because the elder GOPs will all be dead before the real consequences kick in, so what do they care?
because older Republicans remember the last 20 death threats of global warming.
Don’t understand how you could call yourself a Republican and claim to care about the future of our planet.
no they dont lol climate change may be sum what real but democrats have been using it as a excuse to drain federal funding. why would California cut forestry budget while having fires?
I’m a 27 year old republican, and I’m for Policy, based on climate change. However, the I hate when libs deceive people on certain things that aren’t climate change, trying to claim they are, like the wildfires they are saying are attributable to climate change. I also don’t like
The GOP approach to climate change, COVIDー19 & everything:
BS propaganda. Everything conservatives say is a lie.
Climate change is a scam
I went into my nearest inner city ghetto and tried to tell blacks (obvs Dems) that theyre producing too much pollution and should give up fossil fuels. They didnt seem too responsive. Its weird this is the most important issue to democrats, but POCs dont really care.
Probably because they're the ones who have to live with the inevitable outcome of voting for anti science racists.
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