Audience: Youth

This post includes climate and environment headlines, data points, and key takeaways from recent public polls – including new polling on Biden’s climate agenda, voters’ relative trust in the two parties to handle climate change and the environment, voters’ prioritization of climate change relative to other legislative issues in Washington, and a new report of American teens’ attitudes about climate change and the environment.

With the threats from telecom carriers to restrict broadcast and peer-to-peer texting, advocates may need to pivot to alternative modes of contact to reach and engage supporters. Sunrise Movement partnered with the Climate Advocacy Lab and The Movement Cooperative to test a relatively new technology as a potential replacement for text messages: ringless voicemail messages (a.k.a. voicemail drops). This approach allows senders to “drop” a voicemail into a recipient’s phone without registering as an incoming call, allowing for some of the same benefits of texting (asynchronous communication, notification on phone, etc.) but outside of the purview of carriers.

This post includes climate and environment headlines, data points, and key takeaways from recent public polls – including new polling on the energy crisis and gas prices, a new poll of coastal Americans’ attitudes about the climate crisis and policy solutions to address it, new polling on clean energy provisions in President Biden’s economic plan, and a new poll of young voters on President Biden’s approach to climate.

The next global youth climate strike takes place on March 25, marking three years since 1.4 million young people from 123 different countries first walked out of class to demand climate action in March 2019.
The school strikes and other large climate protests of 2019 activated a new generation of leaders and elevated public support for climate action. Since then, challenging social and political conditions have also emerged: a global pandemic and uprising for racial justice, major blocks to progress at the federal level, and now a war in Ukraine.
Navigating uncertainty and challenge is at the core of organizing, but so are practices of adapting, building on past lessons, and bringing bold leadership to pathways forward. Reflecting on the past three years, we dig into the youth climate strike movement and how they are learning to adapt and build on past efforts in the face of growing challenges.