Here’s what can come next with climate-change fever finally breaking
Something was conspicuously missing from California’s primary this month. In the state that built its political identity around fighting climate change, the issue barely registered.
Voters fixated on affordability and housing. About 44% named the cost of living, jobs and inflation as the state’s most important problem, with just 1% citing climate change.
Even Tom Steyer, the billionaire who made his name funding climate activism, ran a campaign centered on lowering household costs.