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The Missing Issue from the 2016 Campaign: Climate Change (The Guardian)
Guardian US survey reveals anger of voters as election year debate fails to deal with concerns over the gathering global disasterThe Guardian asked readers to identify the “one issue that affects your life you wish the presidential candidates were discussing more”. Resoundingly, the largest group of participants pointed to climate change.
Of the 1,385 who responded to the call-out – from all 50 states – one in five expressed discontent at the relative silence from candidates around a subject that they believed to be of supreme and epochal importance. They noted that much of the Republican debate has either focused on blatant denial that climate change even exists or on how to unpick Barack Obama’s attempts to fight global warming, while on the Democratic side both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have raised the issue but have rarely pushed it to the top of the political agenda.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/05/climate-change-voters-2016-election-issues
July 5, 2016 - 7:36 am EST