▲ 539 ▼ If So Many Americans Care About Climate, Why Don’t They Vote Like It? 11.2 million. That’s the number of Americans who rank climate as a their top priority but didn’t vote in the 2024 US elections (coveringclimatenow.org) submitted 3 weeks ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/climate@slrpnk.net 369 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] story@lemmy.zip 38 points 3 weeks ago (4 children) which oil executive should i vote for permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 10 points 3 weeks ago Oil/lobbying industry spent decades demonizing and deflecting global activism, by portraying them as eco-extremist/ecoterrorist. the lesser known method is them funding campaigns or even companies to tell you to buy thier "low carbon emission footprint" products so they dont have to reduce thier own emissions. and also funding "protestors" to deface public property. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 child) Preferably none. But if you only have those options, you better voter for the better one of things will get even worse than they are now. So please, go vote. Don't pretend like it does nothing. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] story@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 weeks ago read W.E.B DuBois to understand why i do vote you telling me to does harm he was even more important then MLK and was America's best epistemologist. come back in a year permalink fedilink source parent [–] tachikoma@lemmy.today -3 points 3 weeks ago The one that doesn't invade Venezuela to take their oil. Is this some kind of trick question? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 10 points 3 weeks ago Oil/lobbying industry spent decades demonizing and deflecting global activism, by portraying them as eco-extremist/ecoterrorist. the lesser known method is them funding campaigns or even companies to tell you to buy thier "low carbon emission footprint" products so they dont have to reduce thier own emissions. and also funding "protestors" to deface public property. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 child) Preferably none. But if you only have those options, you better voter for the better one of things will get even worse than they are now. So please, go vote. Don't pretend like it does nothing. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] story@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 weeks ago read W.E.B DuBois to understand why i do vote you telling me to does harm he was even more important then MLK and was America's best epistemologist. come back in a year permalink fedilink source parent
[–] story@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 weeks ago read W.E.B DuBois to understand why i do vote you telling me to does harm he was even more important then MLK and was America's best epistemologist. come back in a year permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tachikoma@lemmy.today -3 points 3 weeks ago The one that doesn't invade Venezuela to take their oil. Is this some kind of trick question? permalink fedilink source parent