Jane Goodall Says 2024 is the ‘Most Consequential Voting Year’ | “Every vote matters, more this year than perhaps any time in history.”
Jane Goodall Says 2024 is the ‘Most Consequential Voting Year’ | “Every vote matters, more this year than perhaps any time in history.”
Title comes from the article version of this newsletter; the content is the same, but the newsletter version isn't paywalled.
TIL Jane Goodall is still alive.
This has been said my entire life and I have reached the conclusion that any election year where a republican or a democrat wins is not the most import election. It will be the most important when we decided to move on and stop repeated the same process.
The climate is the most important issue we face, that is why it is critical that we reelect the president who has unilaterally renewed and expanded oil and gas leases to make the US the worlds largest Petroleum supplier once again.
I can't understand how Americans can believe they are an actual democracy. There are only two parties with actual chances. They both have the exact same position in anything that matters economically, they both won't stop to fuck the future of everybody in the planet because they are owned by the same megacorps. but they have minor disagreements about how hard it should be to buy guns at Wal-Mart, so let's pretend your vote makes any difference at all...
Yeah, it's going to be the most important thing every election year from now on.
And before now. It's almost like elections are always important.
And that's why my focus has been and will continue to be on improving our election process. I don't like the two major parties, so we should eliminate the spoiler effect by using a better voting system. I don't like that my state has extremely gerrymandered districts (100% goes to party A, despite party B getting 30-40% of the vote), so we should consider proportional representation for House seats. I think voting by mail is the best option, and I don't like that many areas disallow/restrict that. And so on.
Yeah, climate is important, but we should be focusing on voting reform since that's the only way to pick something other than the two clowns that make it to my ballot every year.
You might like Protect Democracy . Their suggestions for reform and really good, imo
Sorry but I've been hearing this every election since I was old enough to vote.
yawnThat's right everyone, it's that time again, THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION OF OUR LIFE! You of course only have 2 "real" choices, and if you vote for anyone beside who I think you should vote for you are a racist, a sexist, a fascist, you smell bad, you are a bigot, you are selfish, you are naive, and hundreds of other things. I'm a VERY serious political commentator who happens to be extremely privileged with the status quo, so make sure to vote within the parameters I've outlined above, our democracy depends on it.
The choice between an atomic bomb or a pipe bomb is still a choice and one that will make sure the least amount of damage will be done, but you keep being big mad.
Interesting point. I think I will vote for feeding the homeless and universal healthcare instead of a pipe bomb because while there is pipe bombs and atomic bombs on the ballet... there are also other things. Why would I vote for a pipe bomb? lol that would be a dumb thing to do, I could hurt myself.
One candidate, I wish he was doing more, but he's doing a lot with the bad hand he was dealt.
The other candidate has called climate change a hoax and will not only do nothing, but will prevent others from taking action.
The next few years do indeed mark a possible turning point in climate change. If the US shows good leadership on the world stage, that will be instrumental in mitigating the worst of climate change. Four years of Trump (or Haley, if Trump somehow loses the primary) is too many years.
Pretty sure I've heard this every election since Trump got elected. Though, admittedly, not from a noted gorilla scientist.
Having one party interested in ending democracy will do that.
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Right, I'll be voting for the candidate who said they establish UBI using funds from a carbon and meat tax.
Hmm.. So apparently most lemmy users on this sub are fuckin morons, eh. Well I'm shocked
it gives me so much pleasure to know that yours is a minority viewpoint on the fediverse; perhaps you should go back to reddit, or facebook, or whatever group think hole you crawled out from.
Isn't she the one that killed Harembe?
She gave an interview justifying the killing as necessary to save a human child who fell into a zoo's gorilla enclosure.
She didn't kill