Your Daily Dose of Climate Hope: November 5, 2024
It's Election Day in America. VOTE!
It’s Election Day in America. This one’s really, really, really, REALLY important, folks.
If you haven’t already…VOTE! And urge everyone you know to vote as well!
Reasons for Hope
The 2024 U.S. presidential election is incredibly close. Due to the electoral college system, it will almost certainly be decided by voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
If you live in one of these critical seven “toss-up” states, your vote this year is surpassingly, extraordinarily, world-historically important.
In the rest of country, your vote is still extremely vitally important for control of Congress and many other critical races.
From anywhere in the U.S., you can check out all your local election details through Vote.org, including a polling place locator. This is a great one-stop-shop resource to send to folks you know!
An extremely wide array of critically important issues will be significantly influenced by the outcome of the 2024 U.S. election, from American democracy to healthcare costs to the clean energy transition to reproductive freedom to even the efforts to save millions of lives by funding public health interventions in sub-Saharan Africa.
The Biden-Harris Administration has kickstarted an unprecedented clean energy manufacturing boom across America, funded by the biggest federal investment in fighting climate change in history.
Here’s an in-depth series of articles explaining the probable consequences in a worst-case scenario for the 2024 election, in arenas from climate action to civil rights to foreign policy.
And here’s an article with more details on possible threats to a free and fair election that might arise, and what citizens can do to help counter them.
The Biden-Harris Administration has governed for an extraordinary four years of epochal policy victories, with particular highlights including the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, substantially lowering prescription drug costs, AUKUS, heroic defense of Ukraine, Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, NATO expansion, Inflation Reduction Act, CHIPS and Science Act, JAROKUS, and Respect for Marriage Act.
Today, America decides whether we want to keep and build on this progress, or slide into ignorance, fear, and hatred.
We can do this.