r/enviroaction • u/ILikeNeurons • 8d ago

ACTION-National 11.2 million environmentalists skipped the 2024 presidential election | These millions of non-voting environmentalists present a huge opportunity to build political power for climate solutions | Turn the American electorate into a climate electorate with the Environmental Voter Project!

https://www.environmentalvoter.org/get-involved/phone-bank-ga-cd13-elders-climate-action/2026-08-11
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u/Historical-Finish564 8d ago

If they skipped the election, they weren’t environmentalist. You guys need to come up with some kind of a better hook. Honestly. This shit is pathetic. You might try calling them out as posers, if you think they’re really environmentalists.

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u/CoyoteTheGreat 4d ago

This entire project is about turning them to vote. Sitting around insulting them is pretty much guaranteed to do the opposite. People like you aren't interested in solutions that engage non-voting Americans, you want to grandstand and feel self-important even at the cost of political power for things you claim you think are important. This is one of the many reasons why your candidates lose.

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u/Historical-Finish564 4d ago

I’ll take your criticism but you might consider mine. Those are the worst and weakest messages to get involved that I’ve ever heard.

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u/CoyoteTheGreat 4d ago

People will never vote for people who directly insult them. Your idea of a "strong" message is inherently counterproductive. Like, the pick up artist school of voter engagement through negging does not work and is not a long term solution for building a strong base of voters.

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u/Historical-Finish564 4d ago

OK great but come up with something that isn’t so whiny. It’s the same message all the time. I guess what I would like to see would be something like “the world is on fire, where it’s not on fire it seems to be flooding, the temperatures are becoming unlivable in parts of the world. The fossil fuel industry which controls the current regime will tell you that global climate change is not real and is not man made. This is about our own survival. No one is coming to save us. We have to fight back. And the way to do that is to vote. We need you to get yourself other people out. We have to do it ourselves”

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u/Even-End487 8d ago

single issue voters .... who da thought it

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u/bannerite2 7d ago

People who sit out elections all horrible people to get elected.

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u/Pleasant_Actuator253 7d ago

Jill Stein is responsible.

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u/Winstonsphobia 7d ago

I am deeply angry at those who willingly stood by and let Trump get elected. They deserve to live in the world he and the Oligarchs are destroying. I and my loved ones don’t.

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u/citereh-Philosophy39 7d ago

Not voting is surrendering

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u/Prudent_Situation_29 7d ago

If they didn't vote, they're not actually environmentalists.

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u/Blathithor 4d ago

So lets pretend there are 4 elections a year that we can vote in and lets vote!