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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'm a climate change voter. Are you?
I believe human-caused climate change is real and presents a direct and deepening threat to life on Earth as we know it. I believe the air, the food and the water are all in grave peril. I cant believe saying that remains controversial, because the evidence of it is literally on fire in front of us. The images are broadcast into our homes each night by the nightly news shows, whose anchors are at long last uttering the words, now that it might be too late.
Moses had the burning bush to show him the way; we have, among other things, the Mendocino Complex fire the largest conflagration in Californias recorded history. Fires in Europe are 43 percent above the norm, and Greece along with much of the Mediterranean region is projected to transform into a desert within decades.
Japan and Korea are suffering unprecedented heat waves. Laos, Algeria, Greenland, Oman
there are bad records being set virtually everywhere on the map. Smoke from wildfires in Siberia made it all the way to my front porch in New Hampshire, and Sweden recently called for help because there are more massive wildfires burning out of control to the north of the Arctic Circle.
https://truthout.org/articles/the-coming-thunder-of-the-climate-change-voter/
Fullduplexxx
(7,872 posts)No matter who because scotus was in the balance.
wasupaloopa
(4,516 posts)We dont have the luxury to be a one issuer voter.
bluescribbler
(2,124 posts)My 1st vote was in the 1972 Presidential Primary. I voted for Shirley Chisholm.
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)I was waiting for a crisis so everyone else could catch up with me. I thought it would be the Maldives sinking forever under the waves, but forest fires will do. It's a macabre view, but that's human nature. We don't respond to an impending crisis until it is actually upon us.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)I'm that and a many-other-issues voter.
Btw, I've been a "climate change voter" since the mid 1970s. I was a couple years late to the game. In 1965 President Johnson sent formal notice to congress that they needed to get busy meeting this challenge, but I was too young to vote then and it was a college geology class that committed me.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)0rganism
(23,975 posts)Rhiannon12866
(206,332 posts)If we can't exist on this planet, then there's no point in anything else!
Squinch
(51,056 posts)That's why I'm voting D without exception, no matter what I think of the candidate.
Hekate
(90,867 posts)Plus I live in California, and if there are any of my fellow Democratic Californians who think the drought and firenados are just Gawd's Will, I have not met them.
The Party Platform pretty much covers all my issues.
HeartachesNhangovers
(816 posts)or any of the other negative human impacts on the environment: water pollution and overuse, elimination and degradation of natural habitat, etc, etc. Only widely-adopted and significant changes in personal behavior will make any difference:
?Minimizing the number of gadgets, vehicles, appliances & clothing items we have - repairing rather than discarding & replacing.
?Sacrificing personal comfort - leaving the A/C and heat off unless absolutely necessary, and making do with a few hundred square feet of living space.
?Rejecting single-use products and packaging.
?Eliminating travel as amusement.
Basically, nothing will significantly improve for the environment until Americans broadly reject consumerism. Is any politician advocating that?