{"id":68604,"date":"2024-11-07T14:14:20","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T22:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=68604"},"modified":"2024-11-07T14:14:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T22:14:20","slug":"the-planets-most-existential-threat-was-left-out-at-the-ballot-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=68604","title":{"rendered":"The Planet\u2019s Most Existential Threat Was Left Out at the Ballot Box"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By<\/span>Sunita Sohrabji<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Climate change fared poorly in the minds of voters in the 2024 election.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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(Marcus Spikse photo via Unsplash)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Climate change barely registered in voters\u2019 minds in this election cycle: a flailing economy, sustaining democracy, and immigration overtook the pressing existential threat.<\/p>\n

The planet is at a tipping point, threatening climatological changes that are deeper and permanent, said renowned environmental activist Bill McKibben, founder of\u00a0Third Act<\/u><\/a>, at an\u00a0Ethnic Media Services news briefing<\/a>\u00a0Nov. 1.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last 18 months on our planet have seen not the steady rise in temperature that we\u2019ve been observing for decades, but a very dramatic spike in the temperature of the earth and the temperature of the oceans. This augers very badly for what\u2019s happening in the next few years as the poles melt, as the seas rise,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The next \u2018great extinction\u2019<\/h2>\n
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