Global Warming Not Our Most Pressing Concern

Global Warming Not Our Most Pressing Concern
An environmental activist protests President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris climate accord deal, in New York on June 1, 2017. JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images
Tom Harris
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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.
Tom Harris
Tom Harris
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Tom Harris is executive director of the non-partisan Ottawa, Canada-based International Climate Science Coalition.