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After discussing Health Care as a lurking issue in this year’s election, I want to remind voters that there is another really huge issue that corporate media has chosen to bury this year. This is an issue that has younger voters scared and understandably so.

After the disaster wrought by Hurricane Helene a couple weeks ago we can understand why the rapidly changing climate is something to be feared and something that the government should be marshaling its forces to try to contain. 

The US has seen a couple of years of ever rising temperatures as month after month brings new monthly record breaking temperatures. So far this year the world has seen 9 straight months of record breaking high averages. 

Along with those continuing higher temperatures come increase fire threats and damages, storms that develop from depressions to category 4 or 5 hurricanes if record time as the storms strengthen over increasingly warm seas. Now the storms are maintaining power deep inland. They used to dissipate quickly once they hit land. Not any more.

What is happening here is happening around the world. Just before Hurricane Helene ravaged the US, Europe endured Storm Boris with monumental flooding. All this is not happening over millennia but over decades and now just years. 

About a year ago climate change was identified as a major issue for voters under 35 for this year. Yet once again, we are in the final days of the campaign and corporate media has bent the issues to be hatred of immigrants and hatred of women and the horse race itself. 

Climate change is just one of many issues that the media refuses to report. Even what was the top issue a year ago – women taking control of their own reproductive heath care – is an issue that the corporate media is trying to ignore. Women and young voters force the media to report on it despite their willingness to.

As usual, the MAGA party will do nothing about climate change but make it worse. They will continue policies that will preference fossil fuel energy systems. Renewable energy will be short changed as green house gases continue to be pumped into our atmosphere. As you know, this will result in continuing worsening of the climate.

We are not yet out of time, but the window is closing. There is need for strong and bold action. The Democratic Party is the only political group we can look to in the US to take action. As noted, MAGAs will do nothing but take donations from the greenhouse gas spewers.

Climate a concern? Vote for Democrats and then let them know that you want action.