Southerners Are Scared of the Climate Crisis, and Their Politicians Are Ignoring Them

[applegrove]

Southerners Are Scared of the Climate Crisis, and Their Politicians Are Ignoring Them

The states that will be most affected by the climate crisis are the ones with the least political action.

By Shayla Love at Vice

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vb9awa/southerners-are-scared-of-the-climate-crisis-and-their-politicians-are-ignoring-them?utm_source=reddit.com

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Those same states are not part of The United States Climate Alliance, mostly because of polarization of our political parties around climate change. ”Every state not in the Climate Alliance is represented by a Republican governor—with the exception of Louisiana,” said Charlotte McClintock, the primary researcher and a graduate student studying psychology research methods at the University of Virginia.

Conservative officials have consistently voiced doubt and blocked legislation concerning climate change, even though the parts of the country they represent stand to lose the most. A recent New York Times analysis rounded up over 80 environmental rules and regulations that are being pushed out by the Trump administration, with help from Republican congress members. Inside Climate News reported that in 2018, most caucus Republicans “voted to block agencies from considering the social cost of carbon in rulemaking," and that "only a handful spoke out against President Donald Trump's decision to leave the Paris climate accord.”

The majority of people in these red states believe climate change is happening and want their politicians to take action

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Other recent surveys have had similar findings: that actually, a majority of Republicans do believe in climate change and think we should be doing somethingabout it. For example, 80% of Republicansthink that there should be funding for research into renewable energy resources, 64% think that CO2 should be regulated as a pollutant, and 52% think that environmental protection is more important than economic growth.


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[walkingman]

1. All they have to do is vote for people that take climate change seriously. Not that hard to do.

[gratuitous]

3. Maybe some national Democratic candidates should go down to Dixie

Generate some local coverage and excitement without the Fox News filter. Show the lonely outposts that they're not alone. Give folks another story than the one the Republicans have been telling them for 60 years.

[walkingman]

9. I totally agree. I was born in Mississippi and left as soon as I could after finishing

HS. BTW - it has been more than 60 years because before that the Dixiecrats were just as racist. Having lived through the civil rights movement (even got to see MLK and Joan Baez) during those days . My HS was burned down and it totally changed my mind about racism and discrimination. Going to college elsewhere and basically being exposed to all kinds of people and I realized people of color were not the monsters that I had been told growing up. I am so thankful that the racism and religious indoctrination did not stick.

[Caliman73]

2. And yet they keep electing Republicans to their State Legislature and Federal Gvt.

I want to get off drugs, that is why I plan to live with a bunch of Meth Heads and Heroin users, cause that'll help me clean up.

So the poor scared Republican voters in Louisiana are scared and want funding for Climate Change remediation? Well one party continues to deny that climate change is even a thing and the other is trying to desperately do something about it.
How about a little help...huh?

[Dirty Socialist]

4. Run Climate Change Ads in Florida 24/7

And don’t let up! DO IT!!!

[jpak]

5. Maybe they should form a Caravan and migrate North

yup

[misanthrope]

6. Um, not really

Are some Southerners afraid of climate change? Yes, undoubtedly.

Are a majority of Southerners afraid of climate change? No. The evidence is in their actions.

[PA Democrat]

7. Not all of them, some of them prefer to stick their heads in the sand.

What do you say to people who live on the water just 8 feet above sea level who deny climate change? Oh and this was after they complained about their property insurance premiums.

[beachbum bob]

8. It's karma, they vote these people in, so they will pay the price, I just wish

when the times come my taxes aren't wasted on bailing them out.

[tblue37]

10. Not scared enough. Most will still vote R. nt