Climate change is, in my opinion, the defining issue of our lifetimes. It looms over all else and everything comes back to it. I'm currently not engaged in any environmental work and it's really starting to bother me. How can I not be involved in the biggest issue of my lifetime!
However there aren't any socialist organizations in my area working on climate action. We're doing a lot of good work around Housing, Abortion, and LGBTQA+ currently. However I feel like those organizations are completely busy with those issues.
Would it be worthwhile to join a liberal environmental group? I have the time for more organizing if I want to prioritize it.
No, they're worse than useless. They suck up activism and spit out 7-person letter writing campaigns.
If you have the option, join a socialist org and work on climate change there. Then it will be possible to coordinate multi-org campaigns where you bring a socialist bent but there will probably still be libs engaging in the action, libs from the orgs you're thinking about joining. But at least you get to guide the action in a less-liberal direction because there's like a 75% chance you'll be chair of ecosocialist whatever in your org within 3 months if you show up and do things. It's so much easier to get libs to do things if you're doing all the work from the left of them.