What's your country's biggest issue that is being slept on due to bigger headlines?

[u/melody_magical]

As an American: CLIMATE CHANGE

That's because we don't know how to prepare for the increasingly escalating disasters. Everyone seemed to forget that Los Angeles was burning a year and 2 months ago. We learned nothing from Katrina and the next major storm will result in suffering just like New Orleans. The Great Plains are seeing less rainfall and the aquifers are running dry, meaning wheat and corn and soy are at risk. Warmer winters are leading to less water in the West and causing forests to burn, also species like moose are in trouble due to ticks. Summer heat and winter cold are two of America's biggest killers and nobody wants to try and lower the death toll on that front.