Climate One: Will climate change matter in the 2020 election?
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Early voting begins in the presidential election very soon, and America is enraged and inflamed across the country. People of all races are expressing their anger and solidarity in the streets and on social media. Separately, COVID infection rates are rising in many states.
How will the turmoil across America be felt in the November election? How will voters cast their ballots? And how will climate concerns rank amid racial strife, a global coronavirus pandemic and a severe economic downturn?
These questions are explored with his guests by Greg Dalton, the host of the Climate One series.
Some say the coronavirus pandemic has shown that there is some residual trust in experts, which may translate into trust in scientific experts about climate change. But Greg Dalton’s guests suggest that both scientific and cultural crises pose a real challenge for “science communication.”
People of color and the communities they live in are disproportionately affected by climate change. Will millions of people who did not vote in the last presidential election be motivated to vote on the basis of climate change in 2020?
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