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Adventure on the Edge.

For our

weekly election series, if you can keep it, we leave the horse race and the polls to the side.

Instead, we focus on the stakes of this election,

for people, for the country country and for our democracy.

That said we can't have a democracy without people, a country, which is sitting right

here on Earth.

Yes, this very large globe we're on together right now

and many of you may be celebrating it for Earth Day.

Throughout this election season,

we've asked you what's sending you to the ballot box.

So far, your responses suggest that climate is your third most dominant concern after Trump and

democracy.

Here's some of what you told us.

I think that both Biden and Trump are a disaster for this climate crisis we're dealing with.

Hope that we have more options than the two people who are not going to be moving us in the

direction we need to go in. I vote for the environment. The problem is that it's very

difficult to vote at the higher level for pro-environment because

there's so much politicking going on.

I focus at the local level and work as hard as I can at that level to promote the environment.

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