https://grist.org/politics/it-was-a-very-good-election-for-the-climate/
"Tuesday was a great day at the ballot box for the planet, with
climate-friendly initiatives and candidates winning nationwide.
In races from New York to Georgia to Washington, voters backed funding
renewables, reining in energy costs, and building out mass transit — and the
people promising to deliver those policies. On the whole, the results suggest
Americans are pushing back against President Donald Trump’s efforts to roll
back climate action.
“This election was a decisive rejection of the Trump Administration’s ban on
clean energy, multi-million dollar taxpayer bailouts for expensive dirtier
energy sources like coal, and other ineffective proposals that will make costs
go even higher,” Sara Schreiber of the League of Conservation Voters said in a
statement.
One of the day’s biggest wins came in New York City, where Zohran Mamdani won
the mayoral race in a landslide victory called just 35 minutes after polls
closed. More than two million New Yorkers voted, the most in a mayoral race
since 1969. Although Mamdani, who at 34 will be the city’s youngest mayor in
more than a century, made affordability the predominant focus of his campaign,
he garnered an endorsement from the youth-led climate organization Sunrise
Movement. Many saw his campaign promises, which included calls for free mass
transit and the greening of public schools, as the seeds of a populist climate
movement.
“Zohran was talking about climate action in a way people could understand, and
people were able to see the impacts of this climate action in their everyday
lives,” Denae Ávila-Dickson, Sunrise’s communications and political manager,
told
New York Focus. Dan Jasper, of the nonprofit group Project Drawdown,
said Mamdani’s transit proposal “is not as sexy as something like solar. But
these are the exact type of policies we’re going to need to actually address
climate change, because it addresses people’s standards of living.”"
Via
Reasons to be Cheerful:
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Cheers,
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
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https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
