The Most Powerful Climate Action You Can Take This Year

Exercise your Democratic Duty

If you live in a democracy, there is one action you can take to leverage your personal power to make a significant difference on the future of our planet: Vote.

Vote for candidates who care about the climate crisis and will enact significant and meaningful policies and legislation to get GHG emissions to zero before 2050.

Too many citizens, even those who care about the climate, don’t exercise this essential right (and I would say duty) often enough. After the 2016 election in the United States, the Environmental Voters Project reported that while 20 million eligible voters viewed climate change as a priority issue, less than half of those people voted. And this was despite large “Get Out the Vote” efforts from environmental organizations.

As environmentalists, it is time to walk our talk. It is time to demand environmental leadership from our politicians. So, this year, particularly if you live in the United States where so much is at stake in our nation, I invite, encourage, and implore you to not only vote in all the local, state, and national elections…