Bill Nye at Crooked Media Tells Young Voters “If You’re On the Fence, Get Off It”

Washington, D.C. – Bill Nye The Climate Guy continued barnstorming the country to make the case that climate is on the ballot, joining Crooked Media’s “Lovett or Leave It” and “What A Day” podcasts to preview his latest video as part of the “Too Hot Not to Vote” campaign with Climate Power. In his video, Bill addresses “Millennials, Gen Zsters, Gen Ysters, and, really, kids of all ages” to encourage them to vote, adding, “if you’re on the fence, get off it” because “on one side is a bright green future for all humankind” while “the other side will lead us to an oily, dry death.”

Watch the full video here.

Bill previewed the video with Crooked Media’s Jon Lovett on “Lovett or Leave It,” telling the live audience “The climate is really important, and young people are concerned about it. So it’s too hot not to vote.” He also joined Jane Colston on “What A Day” to tell young voters to “vote with the climate in mind” and to make the case that “this is the most critical election – ever.”

Bill has now launched five videos in a series for the “Too Hot Not to Vote” campaign. See the other four HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE. Together with other co-chairs including Rosario Dawson, Jack Schlossberg, and Sophia Bush, and through partnerships like their latest with Dreamville hip hop duo EarthGang, Climate Power is working to educate, mobilize, and register climate voters. 

What A Day Podcast – Key Excerpts:

Why climate is such an important issue this election:

• “Here in 2024, the stakes are about as high as they can be. If we don’t address climate change now, it’s going to be not irreversible but it’ll just lower the quality of life of everybody in the world. So everybody please vote with the climate in mind.”

On voters who are concerned if Biden/Harris haven’t gone far enough on climate:

• “Nobody has gone far enough. Vote for Harris and Walz and we’ll take a meeting about doing it faster – for crying out loud. And if anybody out there is even having an urge to a flicker to a tiny flame of an idea in your happy mind about voting for a third party, no, no, don’t.”

On the U.S.’s role in fighting climate change:

• “This is the most critical election – ever. And I remind you if you’re in the United States or not, the United States is the world’s most influential culture. And so when it comes to climate change being addressed globally, the United States has to lead. And for that you have got to vote for progressives in this election.”

On the policies that he’d like a Harris Administration to pursue:

• “We need renewable electricity, renewably-produced electricity that is reliable. And so we want to have as much wind and solar as we can manage – and by manage, I mean manage to build and manage to connect to the grid and make it useful… there is so much wind and solar available, let us pursue all that we can. So let’s go, people.”

On what gives him hope for the climate:

• “Hope is not a plan, but hope does help you plan… You have to be optimistic. I go on and on about both of my parents. I’m of a certain age, and both of my parents were in WWII. My dad was a prisoner of war for almost four years, captured from Wake Island. My mother was a Lieutenant in the Navy breaking codes – or that’s what she didn’t say she was doing. And everybody at that time, everybody in every walk of life, was doing this one thing – we’re going to win this war. That’s all we’re doing. That’s all anybody is writing songs about, that’s all the art, that’s all the rationing, everything was about focusing people and winning the war. And they did. Five years, they resolved this global conflict. We can do this people, let’s go, let’s get ‘er done.”