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Thursday, October 5th, 2023

Survey: Religion and race shape views on cause of climate change

Author:     Russell Contreras and Andrew Freedman
Source:     Axios
Publication Date:     4 October 2023 (used)
 Link: Survey: Religion and race shape views on cause of climate change
Stephan:  

Humanity faces the largest most devastating crisis in our history, as essentially every scientist who has studied the issue concurs, and this well-conducted survey of 5,792 men and women reveals the correlation of race, and religion with these individuals’ recognition of the climate change reality. Two things stand out for me. Religiously unaffiliated individuals are influenced by facts. White evangelical Protestants, basically the same people who make up MAGAt world, do not live in a fact-based reality, and their politics have other priorities. This has to be recognized. It’s the same thing that is going on in the House. A small group of MAGAt individuals are dominating the American culture in many ways. The nonviolent way to deal with this is by overcoming all the Republican rigging, and voting only for Democrats. It is the only way we can remain a democracy.

Religion and race shape views on whether climate change is caused by human activities — with less than a third of white evangelicals saying it’s driven by people, according to a new survey.

Why it matters: There’s virtually no debate among scientists over what is causing climate change.

  • Persistent divisions on climate change’s causes threaten to make political consensus on action impossible to reach.

The big picture: Nearly everyone in the U.S. experienced hotter temperatures driven by human-caused climate change this summer, according to a new Climate Central analysis.

Zoom in: Three-fourths of Hispanic Catholics and all religiously unaffiliated Americans (76%) believe climate change is caused by human activity, a survey released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute found.

  • But less than half of Latter-day Saints believe climate change is caused by human activity (48%), and just three in 10 white evangelical Protestants (31%) believe so.
  • A slim majority of white Catholics (56%) and white mainline/non-evangelical Protestants (54%) say climate change is human-caused.
  • Meanwhile, most Americans (61%) believe climate change is caused mainly by human […]
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