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The Lincoln Project has created some of the most astutely targeted political ads in this election that go straight for Donald Trump’s jugular. They don’t mince words and bluntly convey to American voters the dangers of a second Trump presidency. So they’re exactly the people we wanted to ask about how we (the environmental community) could use some LP-style messaging to get the urgency of climate change across to all voters (because honestly, how are people STILL not alarmed?). While recent polling shows that climate change is a top priority for Democratic voters, for their Republican counterparts, it doesn’t even break the top 6 priority issues.
Watch our interview with Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson and hear his advice for how the message of climate change can be targeted to the voters who may still be unsure about its dangers. You’ll be surprised, but Rick doesn’t think all hope is lost in saying that,
“Americans are a fundamentally optimistic people and when we finally hunker down on a problem we tend to take care of it.”
As the Senate began debate on President Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus rescue package, likely leading to a final vote this weekend, Senate Republicans have attacked it as “big, wasteful, and bloated.” The version of the bill passed by the House of Representatives contains $30.5 billion in aid for public transit systems that desperately need the […]
Continue Reading 112 wordsIt’s not just men in the fishing sector who are impacted by climate change, overfishing, and COVID-19 — women are too. Women like Alexia Jaurez of Sonora, Mexico, who is featured in this Environmental Defense Fund video, do the important work of monitoring the catch and the price, and most importantly determining how many more […]
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Last Friday, the United States formally reentered the Paris Climate Agreement. This is undoubtedly good news but after four years of total climate inaction on the part of the Trump administration as well as other nations failing to meet their commitments, it’s more urgent than ever that the world comes together and gets it right. […]
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