Voting for " Nature is for Everyone"

Today is the spring election here in Wisconsin and in Madison there are many alder people up for election as well as state and county referendums

Today I was nearly # 200 and I almost always vote around 9am, usually I'm somewhere between 30-50 so already one hour in and it's encouraging to know that at my polling place alone folks are turning out

I'm going to share a slightly different perspective on how to vote.

I posted this photo of the poster I designed for @madisonpubliclibrary because this is how I vote and it's not a single issue it's how we connect.

I vote as an intersectional environmentalist- knowing that my vote speaks for the environment AND social justice issues- because environmental issues impact marginalized people disproportionately

I also believe that there's this long standing view that humans hold dominion over nature - that story is simply not true. One species can't ever hold dominion over nature because diversity of species is needed to form lush interconnected web of healthy ecosystems.

In the same way one group of people or government doesn't have the power to decide what constitutes a "good" body. Laws that prevent humans from their own bodily autonomy work against diversity and disconnect us. Humans aren't a monolith and laws governing all humans in a nation, state or locality need to work FOR everyone not dictate what some people want.

I want folks to remember when they vote to vote on behalf of people who may not look like you, share the same culture, age,gender identity, sexual orientation, have differing physical and mental abilities than you AND ALSO vote while holding the land we live on and species we commune with AS sacred as human rights. Environment and human rights are inseparable!

I vote for the world I want to live in as opposed to voting against what I don't like or understand. My attention to the FOR vs AGAINST is a powerful reframe that has only brought more abundance into my life.

Today I urge you to vote with intersectional environmentalism in mind- To vote FOR versus against and feel this sentiment that nature is for everyone

Also keep an eye on the weather friends.