With the upcoming presidential election, Brooklyn Eagle Newsletter Editor and Special Projects Manager Michaela Keil urges New Yorkers to consider the climate crisis when casting their votes on Nov. 5.

“The climate crisis is notably a backburner issue yet somehow also a highly partisan one. Politics are more divided than ever and that means that everything — from the type of car you drive to whether or not you believe in climate change — is politicized,” Keil writes. “Despite the polarization, climate should not be left out of the conversation of who will run our country for the next four years. Fighting the climate crisis is, unfortunately, political. Experiencing the climate crisis is political.”