Guys, this is really, really bad. Our message is not getting through.
In a new @YaleClimateComm @ClimateNexus poll, #ClimateChange came in 13th out of 18 issues "most important" to respondents' votes in November.
People STILL don't understand the urgency.
1/n
If we are not half-way to zero emissions in the next ten years, we are fucked. (Not doomed, of course, but fucked—important distinction.)
Half-way to 0 emissions means we must start NOW.
This is the most consequential election in human history due to THE #CLIMATECRISIS.
2/n
Everyone who follows me on Twitter knows this, of course.
But voters still don't.
We are failing.
3/n
We weren't going to release this yet, but I'm going to say here that our polling at @EndClimtSilence shows that voters don't even have a sense of what a safe level of global warming might be.
These 1.5 / 2 C distinctions are almost meaningless in public discourse.
4/n
I don't know what else to say right now, except to plea that if a politician or an activist says something like "we have 12 years to save the world," I beg of you, PLEASE don't jump down their throat!
5/n
Every single person alive today will be much better off, and our children might actually survive, if voters hear messages that might lead them to overestimate the danger we're in, even fear that we're doomed, *as part of the communication of an actual action plan*.
6/n
I just cannot fucking believe that in 2020 climate change is STILL on the bottom of the fucking list of pressing issues.
This is forcing me to rethink my activist strategy moving forward. Profoundly. I mean, what else is there to do? What's been happening so far is not working.
Full poll here.
climatenexus.org/wp-content/upl…
/fin
#EndClimateSilence
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