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November 13, 2024
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Mark Sappenfield
Senior global correspondent

Sometimes wake-up calls are important. As American politics shows us, the fight against climate change has its advocates and its detractors. But polls show most people are concerned. Most people say they want action.

In her story today, Stephanie Hanes reveals the limits to that sentiment. It’s not that people don’t care. It’s that they care about other things more, and they’re also not super excited about making sacrifices, surprisingly enough. It’s a reminder that Election Day is often the best gauge of what voters really want, not of what they say.


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Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer, center, and Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch carry wreaths as they take part in the Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph in London, Nov. 10, 2024.
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Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer (center) and Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch carry wreaths as they take part in the Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph in London, Nov. 10, 2024.
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A local resident holds a prayer rug with an image of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, amid the rubble of two homes struck by Israel in a Shiite Muslim enclave in Deir Billa, a largely Christian area in northern Lebanon, Oct. 13, 2024.
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Wind turbines are silhouetted against the rising sun, Sept. 30, 2024, near Hays, Kansas. Solar and wind power are now economically competitive with fossil fuels.

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People watch images of the Milky Way projected at the Wits Anglo American Digital Dome in Johannesburg, Nov. 13, 2024.
( The illustrations in today’s Monitor Daily are by Karen Norris. )

A look ahead

Thank you for spending time with the Monitor Daily. Tomorrow, we’ll take you Pokrovsk, Ukraine, which is hanging on, months after Russian forces began advancing on the city.

Also, a quick note: A story on nostalgia for relics of East Germany, published Nov. 8, misspelled a German word. The correct spelling is Ampelmännchen.

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