Author: Alan Crawford

Wildfires in California and Siberia. Floods wiping out grain harvests in Argentina. Droughts forcing water restrictions in Capetown and affecting shipping on Germany’s Rhine River. Climate change is global in nature, and is creeping higher in surveys of voter concerns. In some countries it’s at or near the top, but it’s not regarded with the same urgency the world over. A Bloomberg collation of polls reveals some glaring disparities in the way the emerging crisis is viewed against other worries like jobs and security. That presents a dilemma for political leaders. On the one hand, many face pressure to burnish…