New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist winner of last November’s election , campaigned on rising grocery bills and housing costs, and barely discussed climate change. Other issues have become much more important to voters, and people are reading and watching climate change news less across the global north . A Pew Research Center global survey from August found that many high-income countries have seen a mass reduction in concerns around climate change as a major threat. Take the claim that extreme weather events, because of climate change, have dramatically made us worse off. Germany’s vaunted energy transition has been a textbook case of climate scares driving poor but immensely costly decisions.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 06, 2026 05:00 UTC