Open Letter to Potential Supporters of Jill Stein or Cornel West
Dear friends of the environment,
On behalf of the climate and our environment,
we are asking you to vote for the Harris-Walz ticket as it represents our best chance at making more progress over the next four years.
As we watch the destruction and tragedy unfold after Hurricanes Helene and Milton, there is only one candidate in the presidential election who has a track record of addressing climate change: Vice President Kamala Harris.
Harris is a climate and justice leader with two decades of public service on the frontlines of needed progress and change. She’s been a driving force in delivering the strongest climate action in history, and she’s ready to build on those gains from day one as president.
Two years ago this summer, Harris cast the tie-breaking vote that secured U.S. Senate passage of the strongest climate action in history – climate and clean energy incentives worth at least $370 billion over 10 years in the Inflation Reduction Act. She has also been a driving force to ensure that the solutions are equitable and address the unfair pollution and health burdens that our nation’s front-line communities have suffered.
Harris has worked for environmental justice for two decades, starting after she was elected district attorney for San Francisco and, later, attorney general for California. She created one of the first environmental justice units in San Francisco and held oil companies and automakers accountable for their pollution.
Former President Trump, on the other hand, waged the worst White House attack ever against the environment and public health while in office. And he has made clear that his second term will be even more extreme, drawing from the detailed anti-environment proposals and plans contained in Project 2025. Every vote for Dr. Jill Stein or Cornel West instead of Kamala Harris makes it more likely that Donald Trump will win.
We share your commitment to a safe and healthy environment for all and thank Stein and West for raising important issues in this election, but Vice President Harris is the only candidate with a record of success addressing climate change. Please join us in voting for the Harris-Walz ticket and against the Trump-Vance pro-polluter ticket.
Sincerely, 350 Action Center for Biological Diversity Action Fund Climate Emergency Advocates Earthjustice Action Food and Water Action Friends of the Earth Action League of Conservation Voters NRDC Action Fund Sierra Club Sunrise Movement
The so-called Green Party in the US is a pro-Putin, pro fossil fuel charade. Jill Stein has always been a Russian asset.
Two groups, Climate Power and NextGen America, didn’t participate in the Stein open letter.
Jill Stein is as bad for the planet as Exxon.
It’s not even a good way to protest if you live in a solid dem state. Both parties assume third party voters are stupid, not paying attention, and basically not worth seeking.
If you want to change the dems, get involved. Volunteering gets you plenty of face time with dem politicians to make your case.
I get so mad every time I see this discussion. Like, if you have to vote strategically, there is something wrong with your system – yet the conversation just goes around in an endless loop of “you just have to vote strategically!” There are a million voting systems other than First Past the Post. Just pick one already.
I remember Ralph Nader getting blasted for this back in 2000. Seems silly to blame 2% of folks who vote third-party, and not the 30% of folks voting for the guy who called climate change a hoax.
Good. Glad to hear they have taken a position. Very important.
It absolutely could. Jill Stein and the Greens entire purpose is to draw votes away from the Democrats. They are Russian shills. The dems are not perfect but you’d have to be unbelievably stupid to rather vote green in this current political climate.
Jill Stein achieving her mission. Russian asset.
Donald Trump said he likes her very much, as she’s taking votes away from Harris, and that’s everything you need to know.
Some comments I made for other posts:
> Maybe when the opposition is a run of the mill conservative like Bush and not someone who attempted to overthrow the government for a fascist theocracy and who will enable even more genocide. > > Even if Trump is equal to the dems on the amount of Palestinian genocide, which I doubt, he still says he wants to maintain the apartheid while the dems at least play lip service to a two state solution. But being a Russian asset he will enable Russia’s genocide against the Ukrainian people so now you actually have more genocide. > > But hey who cares about other people’s lives when you can feel morally superior. > > Are the dems great? No but at least they’re trying to make some progress on things like climate change, assistance to those in poverty (school food programs, raising min wage), healthcare, and infrastructure. Sacrificing all of that to prove a point by getting a 3rd party from 0.3% to 3% will accomplish nothing, and abstaining won’t prove a point to anyone, everyone will just go “lazy apathetic voters” like they have forever, not “wow people don’t want to vote, we should clean up our act”. It’s against harm reduction and a position of privilege. > >
> What does getting a third party to higher single digit percentage points in the soon-to-be-abolished elections and enabling the future dictator accomplish? > > Not to mention all of this comes off as a very “we can vote in the revolution, nothing else is important!” stance which is never going to happen. Organize the masses, organize protests, organize mutual aid, and organize unions. And all of which will be much more difficult under Trump. >
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> Yes. You are never going to be able to vote the revolution in, but you can do harm reduction while working toward more independent means of securing progressive action, such as mutual aid. Independent action which will be far easier to organize under a bunch of status quo imperialist neolibs than actively fascist and hostile ones I might add. Leftists won’t have the time or energy to make actual progress and will be stuck in a place of trying to protect as many people as possible from Project2025 if Trump gets in. > > People already tried to make a statement by voting for the Greens or abstaining in 2000 making the race close enough that the republicans could steal it through the supreme court (which is now far more aligned with the republicans than it was then) for Bush Jr. A result that lead to the “War on Terror” destabilizing the region and having a pretty big impact on the issues occurring over there currently. >
Single transferable vote. That’s the solution. Until then the US electoral system does not allow for third party candidates and they simply serve as a foil. That’s the unfortunate reality until we upgrade our democratic processes.
I’m a climate scientist and while I love Jill, I categorically will not be voting for her. A Trump second term is far far too risky.
3rd party voters are people too stupid to do basic math or a simple cost-benefit analysis. I wouldn’t count on them to play any important role in any climate policy strategy involving 3rd-grade scientific literacy.
Please vote for people who will fix the climate issue. The damage done to Mother Nature is hurting my soul.
Kamala is pro-fracking tho
This isn’t the election to vote 3rd party, don’t you know we only have until 2012 to curb CO2 emissions before they become unsalvageable?
Maybe she can get Liz Chaney to talk about the climate 🤣🤣
Tale as old as time
I know a guy from high school who does nothing but push libertarianism. Not only is it based on a naive, childlike worldview, it encourages ‘both sides’ arguments because they hate government regardless of who is running it or what they do with it.
Dude refuses to acknowledge the difference between a candidate who stands for compassion, hope, and unity and a known racist, rapist, pedophile, incester, and traitor who idolizes Hitler and does nothing but spread hatred.
Jill Stein is a Russian operative who worked with the traitor Michael Flynn and directly with Putin to establish her candidacy. She has MAGA lawyers working on her team currently and has NEVER said a bad word about Trump. She only levies her attacks on Harris and Biden. She wants Trump to win.
Stein is only ever heard from at election time as she exists purely to draw votes away from the Democrats, making a Republican victory more likely. Which is what Vladimir Putin wants.
Jill Stein is not viable. Please people, vote reasonably. It can actually make a difference.
I voted for Jill Stein for MA governor in 2002. 22 years of doing nothing more than losing election after election is enough. She is a do-nothing spoiler loser, when she could have contributed to actual policy decisions by becoming either an advocate or author or ANYTHING else.
I was reading this old Sci Fi novel the other day. It was published in 1937. The narrator travels to a planet which he calls “The other earth” and recounts in broad terms the experience of watching a society descend into fascism and global war, culminating in the use of bombs that destroy cities. Pretty accurate predictions of his near future.
But the thing is, he also explains that this descent into chaos is cyclical on this other earth, that this history tends to repeat. But this will almost certainly be the last time. Because their planet has a climate issue that has been building for quite a long time. By the time they get past their global wars and restore society, it will be too late for them to stop their own extinction.
Sound familiar at all?
This is what scares me about this election. Even after these insane hurricanes, we are hoping to escape a new fascism threat. We do not have the time to deal with this culture war bullshit, but we absolutely cannot afford to ignore it. We need to start making very large changes to the way we function as a species, very quickly. We cannot afford to get mixed up in a regime and wars and shiny new genocides.
Donald Trump is running on a platform of having concentration camps.
The fact that this moron is even running blows my mind
It’s honestly kinda odd tbh that the far left’s rightful opponent should theoretically be the far right, and yet nary a swing against them but so much discourse abt why the lesser evil doesn’t work (it does, the lesser evil just never had enough political power cuz they either got kneecapped by the Republican Senate or House or had to spend any of their time in office undoing damage instead of pushing forward better agendas).
Or how the argument that both would still be a part of an Imperialist system disregards the fact that a fascist country can still forcefully engage in expansionist policies + emboldening other fascism in other countries. I’m not in certain spheres and have only recently pawed at it bc I was curious but I can’t wrap my head around how leftists don’t even seem left but more like a warped version of the right. It’s very odd tbh
They’re right. Which is why the trump campaign has said they love Jill and Claudia
No one will listen, just like the warning about Brexit and the damage to the economy and freedom to work and live and travel in Europe. But the idiots that were targeted by the Brexit campaign turned out to vote and the people with enough intelligence to understand didn’t believe that other people would fall for the propaganda and didn’t vote…… Now it’s too late and the people who didn’t vote against Brexit and half the people who did vote are left with their regrets…… People only listen when it’s too late
The irony of the Green Party hoping trump gets elected is nuts
You can’t convince me Jill Stein isn’t a Russian asset meant to funnel votes away from Democrats in favor of Trump. Same thing happened in 2016.
Jill Stein is a Russian tool.
Groups like the Gaza protesters don’t care. They’ll get Trump in and carbon dioxide levels will rise to 500 ppm by 2030, they don’t care they just want to say they stopped genocider Harris even though Trump will let Netanyahu commit a real genocide as well as kill the planet. America will be a dictatorship and Trump will hide all government evidence of climate change. Sea level will rise 6 feet in 10 years and Trump will say “it’s a hoax, the oceans might go up 1/8” in 400 years” even as you see the evidence the dear leader is always right.
“Green” party is a complete scam.
Well that’s their aim now isn’t it? Stein is a stooge for Putin for years
A lot of Americans really struggle with the concept of a constrained choice framework. One of 2 people will be president. That’s it. You get to influence which of those 2. That’s the choice. There isn’t another one. You don’t live in fantasy world. One of those 2 people will set the climate agenda. The budget. The direction of the DOJ. The immigration agenda. The foreign policy agenda. One of 2. Pick.
Go ahead and hand the WH to trump…see if you ever get to Vote again. Baby steps…first get rid of the Nazi Cult…then we can talk
Vote so it does not. Vote Blue.
Jill Stein is a single issue candidate, Get Trump elected.
So true, in Florida, our governor DeSantis is trying to get it put into our State’s Constitution that it will be against the law to use the two words “climate change” together!
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Open Letter to Potential Supporters of Jill Stein or Cornel West
Dear friends of the environment,
On behalf of the climate and our environment,
we are asking you to vote for the Harris-Walz ticket as it represents our best chance at making more progress over the next four years.
As we watch the destruction and tragedy unfold after Hurricanes Helene and Milton, there is only one candidate in the presidential election who has a track record of addressing climate change: Vice President Kamala Harris.
Harris is a climate and justice leader with two decades of public service on the frontlines of needed progress and change. She’s been a driving force in delivering the strongest climate action in history, and she’s ready to build on those gains from day one as president.
Two years ago this summer, Harris cast the tie-breaking vote that secured U.S. Senate passage
of the strongest climate action in history – climate and clean energy incentives worth at least $370 billion over 10 years in the Inflation Reduction Act. She has also been a driving force to ensure that the solutions are equitable and address the unfair pollution and health burdens that our nation’s front-line communities have suffered.
Harris has worked for environmental justice for two decades, starting after she was elected district attorney for San Francisco and, later, attorney general for California. She created one of the first environmental justice units in San Francisco and held oil companies and automakers accountable for their pollution.
Former President Trump, on the other hand, waged the worst White House attack ever against
the environment and public health while in office. And he has made clear that his second term will be even more extreme, drawing from the detailed anti-environment proposals and plans contained in Project 2025. Every vote for Dr. Jill Stein or Cornel West instead of Kamala Harris makes it more likely that Donald Trump will win.
We share your commitment to a safe and healthy environment for all and thank Stein and West
for raising important issues in this election, but Vice President Harris is the only candidate with a
record of success addressing climate change. Please join us in voting for the Harris-Walz ticket and against the Trump-Vance pro-polluter ticket.
Sincerely,
350 Action
Center for Biological Diversity Action Fund
Climate Emergency Advocates
Earthjustice Action
Food and Water Action
Friends of the Earth Action
League of Conservation Voters
NRDC Action Fund
Sierra Club
Sunrise Movement
The so-called Green Party in the US is a pro-Putin, pro fossil fuel charade. Jill Stein has always been a Russian asset.
A near identical set of groups produced an open letter against [RFK Jr’s candidacy](https://foeaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Env-Groups-Open-Letter-on-RFK-Jr.docx.pdf) as against [wasting votes on Stein](https://foeaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Stein-West-letter.pdf).
Two groups, Climate Power and NextGen America, didn’t participate in the Stein open letter.
Jill Stein is as bad for the planet as Exxon.
It’s not even a good way to protest if you live in a solid dem state. Both parties assume third party voters are stupid, not paying attention, and basically not worth seeking.
If you want to change the dems, get involved. Volunteering gets you plenty of face time with dem politicians to make your case.
I get so mad every time I see this discussion. Like, if you have to vote strategically, there is something wrong with your system – yet the conversation just goes around in an endless loop of “you just have to vote strategically!” There are a million voting systems other than First Past the Post. Just pick one already.
I remember Ralph Nader getting blasted for this back in 2000. Seems silly to blame 2% of folks who vote third-party, and not the 30% of folks voting for the guy who called climate change a hoax.
Good. Glad to hear they have taken a position. Very important.
It absolutely could. Jill Stein and the Greens entire purpose is to draw votes away from the Democrats. They are Russian shills. The dems are not perfect but you’d have to be unbelievably stupid to rather vote green in this current political climate.
Jill Stein achieving her mission. Russian asset.
Donald Trump said he likes her very much, as she’s taking votes away from Harris, and that’s everything you need to know.
Some comments I made for other posts:
> Maybe when the opposition is a run of the mill conservative like Bush and not someone who attempted to overthrow the government for a fascist theocracy and who will enable even more genocide.
>
> Even if Trump is equal to the dems on the amount of Palestinian genocide, which I doubt, he still says he wants to maintain the apartheid while the dems at least play lip service to a two state solution. But being a Russian asset he will enable Russia’s genocide against the Ukrainian people so now you actually have more genocide.
>
> But hey who cares about other people’s lives when you can feel morally superior.
>
> Are the dems great? No but at least they’re trying to make some progress on things like climate change, assistance to those in poverty (school food programs, raising min wage), healthcare, and infrastructure. Sacrificing all of that to prove a point by getting a 3rd party from 0.3% to 3% will accomplish nothing, and abstaining won’t prove a point to anyone, everyone will just go “lazy apathetic voters” like they have forever, not “wow people don’t want to vote, we should clean up our act”. It’s against harm reduction and a position of privilege.
>
>
> What does getting a third party to higher single digit percentage points in the soon-to-be-abolished elections and enabling the future dictator accomplish?
>
> Not to mention all of this comes off as a very “we can vote in the revolution, nothing else is important!” stance which is never going to happen. Organize the masses, organize protests, organize mutual aid, and organize unions. And all of which will be much more difficult under Trump.
>
——
> Yes. You are never going to be able to vote the revolution in, but you can do harm reduction while working toward more independent means of securing progressive action, such as mutual aid. Independent action which will be far easier to organize under a bunch of status quo imperialist neolibs than actively fascist and hostile ones I might add. Leftists won’t have the time or energy to make actual progress and will be stuck in a place of trying to protect as many people as possible from Project2025 if Trump gets in.
>
> People already tried to make a statement by voting for the Greens or abstaining in 2000 making the race close enough that the republicans could steal it through the supreme court (which is now far more aligned with the republicans than it was then) for Bush Jr. A result that lead to the “War on Terror” destabilizing the region and having a pretty big impact on the issues occurring over there currently.
>
Single transferable vote. That’s the solution. Until then the US electoral system does not allow for third party candidates and they simply serve as a foil. That’s the unfortunate reality until we upgrade our democratic processes.
I’m a climate scientist and while I love Jill, I categorically will not be voting for her. A Trump second term is far far too risky.
3rd party voters are people too stupid to do basic math or a simple cost-benefit analysis. I wouldn’t count on them to play any important role in any climate policy strategy involving 3rd-grade scientific literacy.
Please vote for people who will fix the climate issue. The damage done to Mother Nature is hurting my soul.
Kamala is pro-fracking tho
This isn’t the election to vote 3rd party, don’t you know we only have until 2012 to curb CO2 emissions before they become unsalvageable?
Maybe she can get Liz Chaney to talk about the climate 🤣🤣
Tale as old as time
I know a guy from high school who does nothing but push libertarianism. Not only is it based on a naive, childlike worldview, it encourages ‘both sides’ arguments because they hate government regardless of who is running it or what they do with it.
Dude refuses to acknowledge the difference between a candidate who stands for compassion, hope, and unity and a known racist, rapist, pedophile, incester, and traitor who idolizes Hitler and does nothing but spread hatred.
[Jill Stein Instagram Account caught liking comments telling supporters to vote Trump if not her](https://www.reddit.com/r/democrats/s/eRhliZfYJP)
Jill Stein is a Russian operative who worked with the traitor Michael Flynn and directly with Putin to establish her candidacy. She has MAGA lawyers working on her team currently and has NEVER said a bad word about Trump. She only levies her attacks on Harris and Biden. She wants Trump to win.
A vote for Stein is a direct vote for Trump.
But that’s the entire point 🙄
[Guess Who Came to Dinner With Flynn and Putin
](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/guess-who-came-dinner-flynn-putin-n742696)
Stein is only ever heard from at election time as she exists purely to draw votes away from the Democrats, making a Republican victory more likely. Which is what Vladimir Putin wants.
Jill Stein is not viable. Please people, vote reasonably. It can actually make a difference.
I voted for Jill Stein for MA governor in 2002. 22 years of doing nothing more than losing election after election is enough. She is a do-nothing spoiler loser, when she could have contributed to actual policy decisions by becoming either an advocate or author or ANYTHING else.
I was reading this old Sci Fi novel the other day. It was published in 1937. The narrator travels to a planet which he calls “The other earth” and recounts in broad terms the experience of watching a society descend into fascism and global war, culminating in the use of bombs that destroy cities. Pretty accurate predictions of his near future.
But the thing is, he also explains that this descent into chaos is cyclical on this other earth, that this history tends to repeat. But this will almost certainly be the last time. Because their planet has a climate issue that has been building for quite a long time. By the time they get past their global wars and restore society, it will be too late for them to stop their own extinction.
Sound familiar at all?
This is what scares me about this election. Even after these insane hurricanes, we are hoping to escape a new fascism threat. We do not have the time to deal with this culture war bullshit, but we absolutely cannot afford to ignore it. We need to start making very large changes to the way we function as a species, very quickly. We cannot afford to get mixed up in a regime and wars and shiny new genocides.
Donald Trump is running on a platform of having concentration camps.
The fact that this moron is even running blows my mind
It’s honestly kinda odd tbh that the far left’s rightful opponent should theoretically be the far right, and yet nary a swing against them but so much discourse abt why the lesser evil doesn’t work (it does, the lesser evil just never had enough political power cuz they either got kneecapped by the Republican Senate or House or had to spend any of their time in office undoing damage instead of pushing forward better agendas).
Or how the argument that both would still be a part of an Imperialist system disregards the fact that a fascist country can still forcefully engage in expansionist policies + emboldening other fascism in other countries. I’m not in certain spheres and have only recently pawed at it bc I was curious but I can’t wrap my head around how leftists don’t even seem left but more like a warped version of the right. It’s very odd tbh
They’re right. Which is why the trump campaign has said they love Jill and Claudia
No one will listen, just like the warning about Brexit and the damage to the economy and freedom to work and live and travel in Europe.
But the idiots that were targeted by the Brexit campaign turned out to vote and the people with enough intelligence to understand didn’t believe that other people would fall for the propaganda and didn’t vote……
Now it’s too late and the people who didn’t vote against Brexit and half the people who did vote are left with their regrets……
People only listen when it’s too late
The irony of the Green Party hoping trump gets elected is nuts
You can’t convince me Jill Stein isn’t a Russian asset meant to funnel votes away from Democrats in favor of Trump. Same thing happened in 2016.
Jill Stein is a Russian tool.
Groups like the Gaza protesters don’t care. They’ll get Trump in and carbon dioxide levels will rise to 500 ppm by 2030, they don’t care they just want to say they stopped genocider Harris even though Trump will let Netanyahu commit a real genocide as well as kill the planet. America will be a dictatorship and Trump will hide all government evidence of climate change. Sea level will rise 6 feet in 10 years and Trump will say “it’s a hoax, the oceans might go up 1/8” in 400 years” even as you see the evidence the dear leader is always right.
“Green” party is a complete scam.
Well that’s their aim now isn’t it? Stein is a stooge for Putin for years
A lot of Americans really struggle with the concept of a constrained choice framework. One of 2 people will be president. That’s it. You get to influence which of those 2. That’s the choice. There isn’t another one. You don’t live in fantasy world. One of those 2 people will set the climate agenda. The budget. The direction of the DOJ. The immigration agenda. The foreign policy agenda. One of 2. Pick.
Go ahead and hand the WH to trump…see if you ever get to Vote again.
Baby steps…first get rid of the Nazi Cult…then we can talk
Vote so it does not. Vote Blue.
Jill Stein is a single issue candidate, Get Trump elected.
So true, in Florida, our governor DeSantis is trying to get it put into our State’s Constitution that it will be against the law to use the two words “climate change” together!
jill stents a useful idiot.
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