Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Superstorm Sandy and the US Elections: The Social Cost of Political Ignorance?

Hurricane Sandy may have been an untimely event during the course of election campaigning, but it puts the spotlight back on climate change despite collaborative attempts by the presidential candidates to clearly steer off from any debate on it.

The rigorous campaigning by US President Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney is about to end in a few hours time. The intensive debates between the Presidential candidates in past few weeks might have ruffled apprehensions on contentious security issues, clarified positions at-length on foreign affairs, and proposed future course of action on creating jobs, but what they collaboratively steered off from speaking on, was climate change.

Read the full post in Expert Speak @ ThinktoSustain.com