What is the most important issue that voters should consider when voting?     It is not immigrants, not abortion, not inflation, and not wars (which historically have always ended), but climate change that is manmade and will not stop and recede until we and the rest of the world stop polluting our atmosphere.  
 Hurricane Helene has destroyed homes, factories, office buildings, stores and public infrastructures, adding up to countless billions to repair. Many people have been killed or wounded or have lost jobs. The greenhouse canopy continues to get bigger, causing increasingly larger storms, landslides, droughts, floods, extreme heat and frequency throughout the world.
The Biden administration has made Herculean efforts to slow the pace of pollutants flowing into the atmosphere despite strong and ill-informed opposition. There is no one solution.  It requires a variety of approaches to ameliorate the problem.
We need a President who will continue and increase efforts to stop the flow of pollutants from the United States, and also provide global leadership to other countries to follow suit.
It is quite obvious that Trump does not have the capability or the wherewithal to do the job. He thinks climate change is a “hoax.” Moreover, he truly demonstrated his lack of world leadership by abruptly withdrawing from the climate change Paris Agreement that literally represents the entire world’s representatives from 195 nations.
Climate is without a doubt the most serious issue for the United States and the Earth itself.  It needs to be taken into account in this coming election.
Gerry Snyder
Ely