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- quote - Michael Mann
- quote - a Second Trump presidency
- polycrisis - politics and climate crisis
- climate mitigation strategy - voting in 2024 U.S. election
- adjacency - Michael Mann - 2nd Trump presidency - exceeding planetary boundaries - exceeding 1.5 Deg C - Gen Z voting
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- Michael Mann
- 2nd Trump presidency
- exceeding planetary boundaries
- exceeding 1.5 Deg C
- Trump's presidency is existential threat to humanity
- Gen Z voting
- 2024 election
- adjacency statement
- Michael Mann's quote " A second Trump term is game over for the climate - really" applies to the 2024 election if Trump becomes the Republican nominee.
- Trumps dismal environmental record in his 2016 to 2020 term speaks for itself. He would do something similiar in 2025 if he were the president. G
- Given there are only 5 years and 172 days before we hit the dangerous threshold of burning through all the carbon budget for humanity,
- https://climateclock.world/
- It is questionable whether Biden's government alone can do enough, but certainly if Trump won the 2024 election, his term in office would create a regression severe enough to put the Paris Climate goal of staying within 1.5 Deg C out of reach, and risk triggering major planetary tipping points
- A Biden government is evidence-based and believes in anthropogenic climate change and is already taking measures to mitigate it. A Trump government is not evidence-based and is supported by incumbent fossil fuel industry so does not have the interest of the U.S. population nor all of humanity at heart.
- Hence, the 2024 U.S. election can really determine the fate of humanity.
- Gen Z can play a critical role for humanity by voting against a government that would, in leading climate scientists Michael Mann's words, be game over for a stable climate, and therefore put humanity and unimaginable risk.
- Gen Z can swing the vote to a government willing to deal with the climate crisis over one in climate denial so voting activists need to be alerted to this and create the right messaging to reach Gen Z
- https://hyp.is/LOud7sBBEe6S0D8itLHw1A/circle.tufts.edu/latest-research/41-million-members-gen-z-will-be-eligible-vote-2024