11.2 million. That’s the number of American citizens who rank climate change as their top issue but didn’t vote in the 2024 election, according to research by the Environmental Voter Project. For context, Donald Trump won the presidency in 2024 by less than 2.3 million votes. For a little over a decade, EVP has been [...]Read More... from If So Many Americans Care About Climate, Why Don’t They Vote Like It?
If I had to guess, the vast majority of those people are in places that absorb their vote into an electorate that won’t take climate seriously. The US is huge, and it’s hard to steer the political landscape in a given direction. We have a party duopoly that doesn’t help.
That’s not a lot of voters, and those voters aren’t evenly distributed amongst the country.
11 million votes would have easily flipped the election…
If I had to guess, the vast majority of those people are in places that absorb their vote into an electorate that won’t take climate seriously. The US is huge, and it’s hard to steer the political landscape in a given direction. We have a party duopoly that doesn’t help.