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hatrack

(59,587 posts)
Mon Nov 25, 2019, 10:11 PM Nov 2019

That's Nice - Younger Republicans Want Government To Act On Climate (Vox)

Good luck with that.

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The U.S. Public Views on Climate and Energy report published Monday shows that more than two-thirds of adults think leaders in Washington, DC, have to do more to limit greenhouse gas emissions and prepare for impacts like rising sea levels. The survey, conducted between October 1 and October 13, 2019, among 3,627 adults, showed a stark divide along party lines: 90 percent of Democrats or Democratic-leaning respondents think the federal government isn’t doing enough. Just 39 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning adults felt the same way.

But rank-and-file Republican voters are not a monolith, and when separated out by age or how conservative they are, the survey showed that a majority of some Republican groups want more government action to limit climate change.

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Digging further into the Republican side of the poll, it’s clear there is an ideological rift. Just 24 percent of Republicans who identify as “conservative” thought the federal government is doing too little to combat climate change, while 65 percent of Republicans who identify as “moderate to liberal” thought so. This is an increase from 2018, when 22 percent of conservative Republicans and 53 percent of moderate-to-liberal Republicans said the federal government isn’t doing enough.

There’s a generational divide as well. Among the youngest Republicans — millennials and younger — 52 percent said that the federal government isn’t doing all the things it should be doing to limit global warming, compared to 41 percent of Republican Gen Xers and 31 percent of Republican boomers.

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https://www.vox.com/2019/11/25/20981768/climate-change-pew-opinion-poll-republicans-ok-boomer

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That's Nice - Younger Republicans Want Government To Act On Climate (Vox) (Original Post) hatrack Nov 2019 OP
Still dismal numbers for Republicans Boomer Nov 2019 #1

Boomer

(4,168 posts)
1. Still dismal numbers for Republicans
Tue Nov 26, 2019, 08:11 AM
Nov 2019

That whole authoritarian mindset that draws them is also responsible for resisting the very idea of climate change. They are deeply emotionally invested in maintaining the status quo, even if it kills them (and us).

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