Grist: "the most critical issue ever to face humanity is getting less attention this election season than dogs"

Buzzword decoder: Your election-year guide to environmental catchphrases | Grist

“Green jobs” is soooo 2008...

In 2008, from the presidential candidates on down the ticket, Democrats and Republicans alike offered up plans for combating climate change. But you won’t be hearing “climate change” or “global warming” in many of this year’s stump speeches — and that absence speaks volumes.

President Obama recently told Rolling Stone that he thinks climate will become a campaign issue, but even he doesn’t seem to believe it. He didn’t even bother to mention climate change in his most recent Earth Day address. The president thinks he’ll reach more independents by talking about clean energy, energy innovation, and an “all-of-the-above” energy strategy (snatched right from the Republican playbook). Many of his fellow Democrats are following his lead and shunting climate into the shadows, still smarting from the ignominious death of climate legislation in 2010.

...Yes, that’s right, the most critical issue ever to face humanity is getting less attention this election season than dogs.