Not my favorite source, but not a lot of other coverage.
It’s going to take two things to change this:
- Communication to make sure that elected officials hear from us. That means calling, writing, turning up in person, trying to have private conversations with staff, etc.
- Active intervention in primaries, so that it’s much harder to get elected if you don’t support decarbonization
Lemmy misreads that I don’t want climate progress. I do. But I acknowledge that it’s a losing election issue (see history). But you seem to have misread in a different way which I honestly don’t even understand what you’re trying to say.
I think assuming any issue that affects capitalists is unpopular because it doesn’t win US elections is just ignorant of basically every part of our electoral system, government, media ecosystem, etc. People don’t have that much input and to the extent that they do, they get constantly mislead by the people who have both the means and motive to push their message against popular will or interest.
We have to reckon with THAT problem instead of just incorrectly despairing that people don’t care. That doesn’t get us anywhere.
Who said “any issue that affects capitalists”? I said environmental progress, greenhouse gasses in particular, is not a winning election issue. (Again, I want it to be, but I acknowledge it’s not.) If you’re going to strawman that badly, holy cow. I’m out.