«The Utah State Board of Education greenlit plans Thursday [April 12, 2018] to begin drafting new school science standards, a process likely to touch on
divisive issues like climate change and evolution,» according to the Salt Lake Tribune (April 13, 2018).
In other words, it feels to me
like there's some sort of distorted feedback loop, wherein candidates don't raise environmental
issues because they think they may be controversial and
divisive (though, as McCain or my dad's generation of Republicans show, the planet obviously crosses party lines), and the public doesn't raise
climate issues enough because it apparently isn't on the political menu,
like religion at dinner parties, but that doesn't mean we don't believe (in
climate change or the need for our
change).