The climate stakes of the election, in 15 critical areasEarthBeat Weekly October 25, 2024
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Election Day is 11 days away. Climate change and the environment have gotten little attention from the presidential candidates, and voters have regularly ranked the issues low among their priorities. Still, the outcome will nonetheless have serious ramifications for how the country — the world's largest producer and user of both oil and gas, and the largest historical source of heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions — will address climate change the rest of the decade. Scientists, including the latest U.N. emissions gap report (see below), have stated nations must make significant progress in the next five-plus years, by cutting global emissions nearly in half by 2030, in order to keep the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) within reach. What raises the stakes for the U.S. presidential election is that the two major candidates, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, are near-polar opposites on climate and environmental issues. Grist, a fellow nonprofit newsroom and one dedicated to covering climate solutions and uncovering environmental injustices, has spotlighted those differences within an expansive breakdown of how a Harris presidency and Trump second term would impact climate and environmental policy in 15 key categories. Through a republishing agreement, we've posted the Grist analysis here at EarthBeat. Here's a sample:
Read more: The climate stakes of the Harris-Trump election Catholics who work on climate and the environment also see high stakes in the choice of the next president. "Both candidates have histories, certainly, on climate and environmental issues," Catholic Climate Covenant executive director and founder Dan Misleh told Kimberly Heatherington for OSV. "Those histories are very, very different. President Trump pulled out of the Paris Agreement, and the Biden-Harris administration got back in." Anna Johnson, North American senior programs manager for the Laudato Si' Movement, pointed to Pope Francis' warning last year in Laudate Deum, his apostolic exhortation "on the climate crisis," that "The world in which we live is collapsing, and may be nearing the breaking point." "There will definitely be environmental work done with (these candidates)," Johnson told Heatherington. "I think it is urgently important that each Catholic take a deep look at each candidate's platform, and really discern what that level of work will look like, and how they see a viable future for us, and our children, and grandchildren living on this planet." Read more: Critical climate issues at play for Catholics voting in 2024 presidential election
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