What is the #1 most urgent issue the next president

[pscot]

will have to deal with? I'm pretty sure it's climate change. What do you think?

[Avalux]

1. Traitors within our government.

When I say traitors, I mean those elected and appointed officials who do the bidding of the 1% and don't care if the American people live or die.

Climate change is rolled into that. And don't ask me how one person can change it, because he or she can't. WE have to do it.

[yeoman6987]

3. Jobs and living wage

I think that is most important. Climate change won't be important enough for average citizens. The problem is most people thought we would be in an ice age right now after the fear in the 70s that had everyone paying attention. Even Time Magazine had "America under ice by 2000". It is hard to come back and say "Oops. We meant warming." Credibility needs to be earned again by the climatology heads.

[RobertEarl]

14. It was an ice age

But the heating we have produced has turned it into a heat wave.
It. Is. That. Bad.

As for jobs, just think of the jobs we will need to produce to begin using alternatives to polluting, heat inducing energy supplies. Millions of jobs to produce new cars, windmills, solar power. New trucks, dismantling nuke plants, rebuilding the green spaces.

It's the future man. There is no future in making more heat from dinosaur shit. Of course, big oil is in the way, man. They are the modern dinosaurs, and big oil has to be killed off.

[pampango]

2. I would say it's inequality though it is hard not to put climate change at the top. n/t

[winter is coming]

13. What's behind both of those, though, is the attitude that corporations come first. n/t

[librechik]

4. rigged elections

[Boom Sound 416]

5. Whether or not continuing the pump from the fed to the Dow

[hifiguy]

6. 1A is economic inequality and lack of opportunities

1B is climate change.
1C is imperialism

[Kaleva]

7. Giving me 1 million tax free dollars.

[Orsino]

8. Or the wage crisis.

Or the oil wars. Or the crumbling infrastructure.

There are plenty of emergencies we're just not addressing yet.

[Glassunion]

9. Self Driving Cars

[FSogol]

20. Heh.

[Warpy]

10. WAGES. They won't be able to do a damned thing while

there is a choke hold on the Treasury. Raising the minimum wage is essential. Then they can talk about pouring money into renewable energy and a new infrastructure to support it.

That will take care of global warming and get us off the Middle Eastern oil tit.

[steve2470]

11. climate change, for sure, long term

Short-term, it's preventing wars.

[strawberries]

16. Maybe I should have said what you did

short term preventing wars. Long term climate change, how to love thy neighbor is a good one

on the latter

[GliderGuider]

12. Yep, climate change.

But it won't be.

[strawberries]

15. how to stop war

I think we are heading into war territory. I don't think at this time Obama has an option but to fight.

[Le Taz Hot]

17. Income inequality.

[seveneyes]

18. Civil unrest

[el_bryanto]

19. That's a good choice - but reigning in wall street is necessary as well

In 2008-2009, the reckless and crazy way Wall Street had been acting for years caught up with us all, plunging us into a recession that we are still suffering with. Most of our regulators are former Wall Street people who don't really see anything wrong with what the market was doing. And so they are doing it again. I don't know how much wealth will be destroyed in the next crash, but it's going to be a lot.

Bryant