Benji Backer on Launching Nature is Nonpartisan for Environmental Action

Launching Nature is Nonpartisan

• 🎯 Nature is Nonpartisan is a new nonprofit organization founded by Benji Backer, aiming to depoliticize environmental issues.
• 💡 The organization's goal is to demonstrate that conservatives can be pro-environment, fostering bipartisan action on conservation.
• 🤝 Backer has teamed up with both liberal and conservative figures to ensure the organization represents a broad political spectrum.

Reconciling Conservatism and Environmentalism

• ⛰️ Backer believes that conservatives are inherently connected to the environment through activities like hunting and hiking.
• ⚠️ He acknowledges that the environmental movement has alienated conservatives by aligning too closely with liberal policies and politicians.
• 🔄 The current political climate sees a cycle of partisan environmental policies being enacted and then undone, which Backer argues is detrimental.

The Need for Bipartisan Environmental Policy

• 📊 Polling data indicates a growing concern for economic growth over environmental protection, a trend Backer aims to reverse.
• 🇺🇸 Backer asserts that Americans across the political spectrum demand environmental action, regardless of election outcomes.
• 🗣️ He emphasizes that the current administration's rollback of environmental regulations without proposing a bipartisan agenda is out of touch with public sentiment.

Common Ground for Environmental Policy

• 💧 Key policy areas where common ground exists include clean air, clean water, public lands protection, wildlife conservation, sustainable agriculture, and forest management.
• ⚖️ Backer calls for politicians to work across the aisle on these sensible policies and for Americans to hold them accountable.
• 🚫 Until now, there has been no dedicated nonpartisan environmental organization to facilitate this.