For 15 straight months after Donald Trump declared for president, the earth’s temperature set a record high each month. Yet, of 70 questions asked during the presidential debates, none
directly raised the world’s most urgent issue of governance. (Ken Bone of red-sweater fame backed into it by way of job security at coal plants, but Twitter dwelt on his sartorial and sexual taste.) Politics still mocks Al Gore’s 1992 prophecy that climate policy must and will be ”the central organizing principle of the post Cold-War world.” Policy will now, too.
