While the media features this subject?
It isn’t gonna be a major on for voters or politicans….
This while rain and heat highs roll across the planet and the Trump admin throws Obama admin regulations in the garbage….
Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere now is at higher levels than at any other point in human existence. The United States is ramping up oil and gas production. Historic wildfires, floods and storms killed thousands of Americans in just the last two years, and it’s forecast to get much, much worse.
Yet Democrats spent less than 10 minutes on Wednesday talking about climate change at the first presidential primary debate.
At an event in Miami ― a city already facing disastrous sea level rise and where a wildfire is raging just 30 miles northwest ― a handful of candidates raised the issue unsolicited. But NBC’s moderators waited an hour and 22 minutes to ask any questions about climate change. Only five of the 10 candidates onstage had a chance to respond to four questions on the issue directed at individual contenders, making it impossible to compare everyone’s stances. Discussion of a topic that only first came up 10:22 p.m. local time ended abruptly at 10:29 p.m….
I think climate change can still emerge as a major issue as the campaign develops.
Just because it wasn’t front and center that s week doesn’t mean anything really.
To make a statement that it “isn’t gonna be major for voters or politicians in June of 2019 for an election that is 17 months away is of little validity.
You have no idea how the landscape is going to be then.
NO I don’t….
But people will continue to worry about healthcare OVERALL….And the basic’s…
Climate Change IS important in the long term, though