Unspeakable failings

摘要

This is getting repetitive. The third and final US presidential debate ended without moderating journalist Chris Wallace asking a single question about climate change, and with only a fleeting reference to the issue by one of the candidates. In this, it resembled the first and second debates. The final debate, held in Las Vegas, Nevada, came as disaster-level drought continues to plague the US West Coast and in the same week that scientists declared September the hottest on record. It was also within days of nearly 200 countries approving yet another historic agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions, this time tackling hydrofluorocarbons.