Re:Connecticut, USA wants to penalize insurers for backing f...
by toomuchtodo on Thursday March 28, 2024 @04:39PM
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https://ourworldindata.org/climate-change-support ("Our World In Data: More people care about climate change than you think: The majority of people in every country support action on climate, but the public consistently underestimates this")
Re:Connecticut, USA wants to penalize insurers for backing f...
by wizzwizz4 on Thursday March 28, 2024 @03:22PM
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Advocates and activists are almost never the majority. People who agree with the advocates, though? In this case, my search engine says they seem to be. https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2021/09/14/in-response-to... https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/09/09/despite-pandem...
Recent polls suggest that opposition to climate change has decreased in the US in the past few years, but it's still just about a majority (and a clear bipartisan majority, if you only count under-30s). https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2022/07/14/americans-div...
Do you have a reason to believe otherwise? We all have a tendency to think our views are more common than they are (unless we're, like, being heckled for them in the streets): maybe the people in your local area are disproportionately opposed to anti-climate-change action?
But it's the climate change advocates like you who are overrepresented? You don't represent the majority. Not just in the US, but even more so globally.