Environmentalists Could Change Election Outcomes. They Just Need to Vote.
Trump on Earth
English - October 31, 2018 14:59 - 19 minutes - 26.1 MB - ★★★★ - 96 ratingsPolitics News Science Earth Sciences epa environment environmentalism trump climatechange currentevents environmentalissues globalwarming news politics Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Historically, polls have shown that environmentalists are terrible at voting. In the 2014 midterm election, more than 15 million environmentalists didn't show up on Election Day. And to be clear, all of them were already registered and already committed to environmental issues. So why are they so bad at voting? And will they turn out in the midterm elections?
We dig into the topic with Nathaniel Stinnett, founder of the non-partisan organization, Environmental Voter Project. He has a plan for getting environmentalists to the polls on November 6th.