“We need the people who are listening to this to spread the message to the people who trust them. Because there is an appetite for this, and we just need people to be evangelists of progress and evangelists of common-sense action.”
Benji Backer, Founder and Executive Chairman of the American Conservation Coalition (ACC), the Largest Right-Of-Center Environmental Organization in the United States.
This episode of Good Energy features a timely and important conversation with Benji Backer, founder and executive chairman of the American Conservation Coalition (ACC), the largest right-of-center environmental organization in the U.S.
Backer offers his perspective on the urgent need for bipartisan collaboration on climate and energy issues. He argues that effective solutions will only be achieved by moving beyond partisan divides and embracing common sense action and incremental progress over ideological purity. Backer introduces his “Nature is Nonpartisan” campaign, an initiative aimed at fostering a shared understanding that environmental stewardship is not a partisan issue.
He also addresses the pitfalls of the “100% or nothing” mentality often seen within climate activism, advocating for a pragmatic approach that embraces compromise and recognizes that “progress is still progress.”
In conversation with co-hosts Colin Silver, SEIA’s Senior Vice President of Content and Strategy, and Stephanie Bosh, SEIA’s Vice President of Communications, Backer delivers a call to action, encouraging listeners to become “evangelists of progress” within their own communities, emphasizing the power of trusted messengers to drive meaningful change.
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Benji Backer
Benji Backer is the founder and executive chairman of the American Conservation Coalition (ACC), the largest right-of-center environmental organization in the United States. Benji’s new book “The Conservative Environmentalist” can be purchased from its publisher Penguin Random House, Amazon, or anywhere books are sold.
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