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This amounts to, as the Guardian explained, a sense of despair and outrage among young people over global heating that’s being met with indifference and dismissal among some older relatives
As of November 1, nearly 10 million young peopleages 18 to 29 had voted early or absentee, and as of November 3, young people made up 17% of those who had voted in 2020. While we won’t have an idea of the total youth vote in the 2020 election as votes are still being counted, young voters are being driven to vote by the climate crisis whereas this urgency isn’t being seen in older voters.
This relatively high youth turnout speaks to Gen Z’s political engagement and power as a voting bloc, if they continue to show up to the polls. Moreover, young people have been looking to grassroots organizing to enact change. In last year’s climate strike, young people across the world took to the streets, using the internet to organize across continents like no generation before them.
Brent Cohen, the executive director of Generation Progress, a national advocacy group for those between 18 and 35, told Teen Vogue: “What was proven in 2018, and again in 2020, is that millennials and Gen-Z are voting generations. We will hold elected officials accountable, regardless of which party they’re from. We will push for progressive solutions to the most pressing issues facing our generations, our country, and the world.”
A United Front: While opinions on climate change tend to split along party lines, young people — conservative and progressive alike— share concerns about global warming.
According to a recent Pew poll, Republicans 18 to 39 years old are more concerned about the climate than their elders — they’re twice as likely to believe that “human activity contributes a great deal to climate change,” and “the federal government is doing too little to reduce the effects of climate change.”
While young people may be split about how best to tackle global warming, they tend to believe that climate change is a moral issue rather than a political one.
Nikayla Jefferson, an organizer for the Sunrise Movement, told NPR: “It means a real hope for the future because it speaks to our generationally shared values: truth, empathy, and patriotism. Climate change knows no party lines.”
By WW0 Staff For the United States, the post-Trump, pre-COP26 road to Glasgow has been paved with ambition and humility. In a major speech, the President’s Envoy, John Kerry, previewed the results of his climate diplomacy before heading into two weeks of intense deliberations of world leaders. Speaking at the London School of Economics — […]
By Ashira Morris, ODP Staff Writer Late last week, President Biden and a critical mass of Democrats in the Senate and House agreed on the details of Build Back Better legislation — a $1.85 trillion overall investment that includes a record-setting $555 billion dollars to take on the climate crisis. The agreement marked a […]
Next week, the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow will draw hundreds of world leaders to Glasgow to determine the path forward five years after the Paris Climate Agreement (for a primer, read this) as new science underscores the urgency. The conference aims to squeeze countries to strengthen the commitments they’ve made towards securing global net-zero […]
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