Making Climate Change A Political Issue

How Some Environmentalists Hope to Make Climate Change an Issue in the Midterms

Justin Worland, October 15, 2018 (Time Magazine)

“Environmentalists hoping to move voters on the issue of climate change have adopted a familiar-sounding strategy: Think globally, act locally…It’s something of a paradox in American politics. Polls show that more than 60% of Americans believe that climate change is happening, it’s caused by human activities and its effects can already be felt, and those numbers hit a three-decade high in 2017, but almost none say that it’s the most important problemfacing the country…[Scientists broadly agree that humans are the prime driver…[but many Republican lawmakers argue the role of human activity] is being hotly debated…[Democrats argue this is an] unscientific view of climate change…” click here for more

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