In an interview with the Vatican News service published on July 4, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore said, “The climate crisis is now the biggest existential challenge humanity has ever faced.”
We often hear that man-made climate change is our greatest threat. But according to the latest Gallup poll, very few people in the United States actually believe it is. And the United Nations’ own polling reveals that, across the world, respondents rate climate change last among issues they would like the U.N. and governments to focus on.