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"Thousand-year floods are obliterating communities with staggering regularity; hurricanes are getting stronger faster and beating coastlines with more brutal wind and surge; the heat is so extreme that first responders are filling body bags with ice as a last-ditch effort to save people from heat stroke.
"At the current rate of ecosystem collapse, scientists predict 1.2 billion people will become climate refugees by 2050, while over a million species of plants and animals are on the brink of extinction.
"Even for voters untouched by flood, fire or drought, the crisis is driving up the cost of food, insurance and supply chains for everyone. Their tax dollars are now pouring into billion-dollar efforts to keep the Earth we know from heating beyond salvation, while other ventures race to adapt our built environments to more violent physics. Property values, insurance rates and building codes are changing, and experts are warning that unnatural disasters like Hurricane Helene are just the opening acts of an existential threat.
"Looking back through time, it's hard to imagine a more severe or consequential gap between candidates on a single issue." writes CNN's @BillWeirCNN.
Read the full analysis at the link in @cnnpolitics bio.
📷: CNN/Julian Quinones
