TWO-THIRDS OF YOUNG REPUBLICANS FEAR FOR ENVIRONMENT AMID LARGE SURGE IN GOP CLIMATE CHANGE CONCERN:

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TWO-THIRDS OF YOUNG REPUBLICANS FEAR FOR ENVIRONMENT AMID LARGE SURGE IN GOP CLIMATE CHANGE CONCERN: POLL

BY BENJAMIN FEARNOW at Newsweek

https://www.newsweek.com/young-republicans-worry-environment-climate-change-poll-donald-trump-gop-1456770

"SNIP......

A recent surge in environmental concern among young Americans shows a growing number of Republicans who say they're worried human behavior and man-made pollution are damaging planet Earth.

President Donald Trump declared himself an "environmentalist" to reporters at the G7 summit Monday, but he quickly said he could not afford to sacrifice jobs and the economy in order to fight climate change. A new survey of global attitudes toward the environment released this week shows 67 percent, two-thirds, of young Republican voters are worried about human damage to the environment. The Amsterdam-based Glocalities polling data reveals an 18 percent spike in 18 to 34-year-old GOP supporters who say they fear the effects of climate change.

The survey of 189,996 respondents from 20 countries between 2014 and 2019 found that a majority of U.S. Republican Party voters today, 58 percent, say they are concerned about human-caused damage to the planet.

The 2014 to 2019 rise in concerns about man-made pollution, greenhouse gases and their effect on the environment is most sizable among Republicans. The U.S. overall has seen an 8 percent increase from 61 to 69 percent over the past five years in people expressing climate change worries. The Glocalities survey also showed a 10 percentage increase among U.S. Republicans who reported trying "to live eco-consciously."



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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Then they should stop being Republicans because their party

has made it clear that they won't do squat about climate change.

[dchill]

2. Bless their hearts!!

[lunasun]

3. Not that they will change party .My guess is republicans who will turn to eco fascist talking points

as solutions. Which is not new

https://www.hcn.org/articles/climate-desk-eco-fascism-featured-in-el-paso-terrorism-suspects-alleged-manifesto
In September 2017, the white nationalist magazine American Renaissance asked its readers a question: “What does it mean for whites if climate change is real?” The bombastic essay wondered whether the “population explosion in the global south combined with climate change” demonstrated “the single greatest external threat to Western civilization” ― even “more serious than Islamic terrorism or Hispanic illegal immigration.”

“If continued global change makes the poor, non-white parts of the world even more unpleasant to live in than they are now, it will certainly drive more non-whites north,” Jared Taylor, the publication’s editor and an influential white nationalist, wrote in an email to the magazine Jewish Currents. “I make no apology for ... urging white nations to muster the will to guard their borders and maintain white majorities

[jcgoldie]

4. Look up for a moment...

...Notice the world is on fire... then plunge head back in sand.

[mucifer]

5. too little too late

[Vinca]

6. Then they'd better vote for the Democrat next time around.

[Hortensis]

7. Data are for survey respondents, so not that good.

I'm surrounded by conservatives here in Georgia and strongly disagree with those who imagine no Republicans are genuinely concerned. Whatever the real data are, new awareness is a huge change for the better, even if it is after the crises have advanced so far that even children are becoming activists.

And, imo, the suggestion that those waking up are more likely to see it as an opportunity for, what are we talking about, genocide?, than a problem threatening their and grandchildren children is shameful.

We really, really need to say no to dangerously poisonous political bigotry. I can't think of a single thing we should have copied from the Republicans, but if we were to this should have been the very last thing. Sure, some of them are so bad they couldn't stop without professional counseling. But isn't being able to and embracing it instead even worse?

As for playing useful idiots for THIS creep!

[Corgigal]

8. Well yeah,

but their wallet though.

What to do? What to do?