A top science question the candidates for president should answer is:

How can we ensure that short term economic gain does not precipitate eventual global health and environmental disaster?

All politicians must balance economic considerations against scientific realities. Politics are by necessity short term, while the scientific consequences may seem very removed from the day to day pressure of politics. How can government, as contrasted with politics, ensure the long-term good of the nation?

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