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Americans who think climate change either isn't real or is overblown are in a small and shrinking minority. There is a partisan divide, of course, with Democrats overwhelmingly accepting climate change as a real threat. Still, a majority of Republicans also believe climate change is happening. In addition, millennial and Gen-Z Republicans show more concern about climate change and support for renewable energy than the elder cohort. Republican leadership, however, is of a different mind. This starts at the top, with a president who has long expressed doubt climate change is real and muses aloud on wind turbines causing cancer. Gestures toward the issue are made for appearances' sake; in his recent debate with Senator Kamala Harris, Vice President Mike Pence deployed the studiedly beige phrase "the climate is changing." But there simply is no consequential policy debate about climate change occurring within the GOP. If Joe Biden ends up in the White House and the incumbent Democratic leadership are still mostly in charge, the chances of a sweeping, AOC-style Green New Deal would be diminished. Climate change measures would still be enacted in some form — not least as part of a post-Covid stimulus effort— but likely more along the lines of an actual transition rather than abrupt disruption. Read Liam Denning's column in full, link in bio.

Bloomberg Opinion (@bloombergopinion) által megosztott bejegyzés, Okt 18., 2020, időpont: 2:55 (PDT időzóna szerint)

Természetesen jól megfigyelhető a két párt szavazói közti szakadék: míg a demokraták nagy többsége elfogadja az éghajlatváltozást mint valós fenyegetést, a republikánusok esetében ez kevésbé igaz. Ennek ellenére ma már a republikánusok többsége is úgy véli, hogy a klímaváltozás létező dolog, sőt mi több, a fiatalabb generációt aggodalommal tölti el a probléma.

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