If you want to fix climate change, the best thing to do is: Vote Against Republicans

[sharedvalues]

The best thing you can do to stop climate change is to vote against Republicans

It’s so much bigger than Trump.
By Matthew Yglesias@[e-mail] Nov 27, 2018, 9:00am EST

With the 2018 National Climate Assessment’s dire forecasts in the news, many people want to know what they personally can do to reduce greenhouse gas pollution and help the world get on a more sustainable footing.


For any single American, the answer is to vote against Republicans.

Vote against the incumbent Republican president who is implementing new, industry-friendly regulations that will increase climate pollution. Vote against the Republican president who has pulled out of global climate agreements and put necessary international climate cooperation out of reach.

Vote against Republican senators who routinely agree to confirm regulators who are in the pockets of industry and who, if a future Democratic administration is put in place, will seek to stymie the confirmation of federal judges who believe in allowing regulators to enforce the law. Vote against House Republicans who seek to defund relevant regulatory agencies and who oppose green energy initiatives.

Vote against Republican governors who veto renewable energy bills that pass Democratic-majority state legislatures. And, of course, vote against Republican state legislators who never pass such bills in the first place. Even further down the ballot, attorneys general matter too. Republican ones mercilessly fight Obama-era efforts to reduce climate pollution, and in the Trump era, Democratic ones have been fighting on the other side.


Now, of course, you might agree with Republicans on other issues like taxes or abortion or gun rights or any number of other topics. Just be aware that if you, as an individual, want to have an impact on climate pollution and the future of the global environment, this is by far the most effective and consequential action you can take. Efforts at ethical consumerism are not only small in scale relative to the overall problem, they in many cases won’t work at all. The problem requires systematic change that only government intervention can make.

Well put.

I’d go further. If you want to fix America, the best thing you can do is vote against Republicans, at every turn.

[mitch96]

1. I still like the idea of registering as a rPublican

and voting a straight Dem ticket!! They will think they have it all sewed up, not try to suppress your vote and it's legal!!

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[2naSalit]

2. +1

[Rizen]

3. Well said

I wish more millennials understood this concept.

[sharedvalues]

5. That's why it's so good Vox is saying this

Vox is targeted at millennials.

[Rizen]

7. Vox is awesome.

[world wide wally]

4. Think about it.

American Republicans are one of only organized groups in the world who do not believe there is man made effects on the climate?
How do you say "duhh" in Russian?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. if you want to fix anything except elections, vote against Republicans

GOPers fix elections; they loot and exploit everything else.