Poll: Religious Americans less worried about climate change

[Uncle Joe]

NEW YORK (AP) — Most adults in the United States – including a large majority of Christians and people who identify with other religions – consider the Earth sacred and believe God gave humans a duty to care for it.

But highly religious Americans – those who pray daily, regularly attend religious services and consider religion crucial in their lives -- are far less likely than other U.S. adults to express concern about global warming.

Those are among the key findings in a comprehensive report released Thursday by the Pew Research Center, which surveyed 10,156 U.S. adults from April 11 to April 17. It’s margin of error for the full sample of respondents is plus or minus 1.6 percentage points.

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“Highly religious Americans are more inclined than others to identify with or lean toward the Republican Party, and Republicans tend to be much less likely than Democrats to believe human activity (such as burning fossil fuels) is warming the Earth or to consider climate change a serious problem.”

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https://apnews.com/article/science-religion-united-states-public-opinion-878d61cb38533dbf704c1b2da7f31605

My own belief is that many of the highly religious have been conditioned to prepare for the end times,...subconsciously global heating is a good thing with them.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

1. "Faith" is a double edged sword.

It's the reason I abandoned my own. Too much magical thinking.

[halfulglas]

2. By "highly religious" I guess they mean evangelical. They probably think God approves

Of anything they do to the earth instead of the responsibility to take care of the earth, not rape it. The this is mine to do with as I wish instead of leave something better than we found it. "So I broke it, so what?"

[Pantagruel]

3. Bigger picture

Increased religiosity generally inversely proportional to intelligence?

[eppur_se_muova]

4. Religion is not a substitute for thinking, people just use it that way. nt

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[republianmushroom]

5. well Religious Americans are not the brightest bulb om the poach.

[Aristus]

6. "Cuz we's gonna fly uppina clouds 'n' be with JEZUS!"