Here in north-central Kansas, America’s breadbasket and conservative heartland, the economic realities of agriculture make climate change a critical business issue. Advertisement Continue reading the main storySo while climate change is part of daily conversation, it gets disguised as something else. One obstacle, though, is that the committee’s chairman does not believe in climate change. Salvo thinks he knows an unlikely — and highly sympathetic — character to bring Kansans and others together around climate change: the lesser prairie-chicken. Salvo has found that to gain allies it doesn’t always help to start with the role climate change plays in harming the bird’s habitat.

Source: New York Times January 28, 2017 10:00 UTC