CNN just had a report on that only 1% of ameriburgers care about the climate when voting.
Can't find the source sadly it's not up on CNN's website yet with the reporting. Look at my elections dawg I ain't never escaping climate catastrophe.
I’m curious how the question was asked, because I only believe that in one way, they don’t care about when voting in this election because they have no difference in positions on climate change. Because ask like anyone under the age of 30 and it’s one of their top concerns. For obvious reasons.
I think careful and deliberate tactics are used to frame questions so that headlines and executive summaries of polling data are often just another piece of propaganda for the ruling class to make sure we all believe nobody gives a fuck anyway so there's no possible future to organizing any resistance to them.
I think you're right. I mean, why would they not be doing that.
As a society, we ain't very good at the whole "delayed consequences" thing. The bad thing isn't happening (to me specifically) right now: therefore, I do not need to think about the bad thing/the bad thing is not real.
I don’t think that’s the whole story though. The migrant “crisis” is animating a lot of voters despite migrants having little impact on the vast majority of people‘s lives. People tend to assign outsized risk to the unknown/unfamiliar and vice versa. Nothing is more comfortingly familiar to the typical Amerikkkan than their oversized house kept at 65 in the summer and 75 in the winter with three giant SUV’s in the driveway that they drive everywhere on clogged stroads.
Humanity
humanity? we're talking about america
Humanity deserves every last fuckign thing that's coming to it and gods willing the last noises to leave my dried-out, parboiled corse will be "HAAAAAAAAAA, HA." like I'm tryna do my best Kendrick GOD. impression.
Generally I like to think that humanity is good but the problem is we're being held hostage by suicidal genocidal maniacs.
Eh well its not like it matters for voting here. Neither of the parties will stop climate change. but ya lots of people either dont think its real or dont think it matters too.
Scientific communication aimed at the average person HAS to be analyzed, for the gross and ineffective failure that it is. This is not normal. How can you go your entire life not knowing about climate change? How can you not realize climate change is the challenge that will define this century and the next (should we survive to 2100). How can you rank climate change as lower in priorities, when it will define everything from where you'll live, what diseases you will contract, what food you can eat, and what job you might have?
honestly I just do not think this is true. It's probably abysmally low, but 1% is just either not true or deeply misrepresented. Newsweek calls the number of voters who "both prefer candidates who support action on global warming and rank climate change as a top issue" as 37% of the electorate. I'd love to see what source you're pointing to, but if there isn't one, you might want to edit your post
https://www.newsweek.com/how-pro-climate-voters-could-sway-2024-election-1919914
I wish I had a source but it's what CNN said while I was eating lunch today. So far I've yet to see anything on their website so maybe they're full of shit I don't know.
To be fair, voting isn't gonna do anything about Climate Change. But also, not surprising.
I feel like that number should be higher, if only by happenstance. A substantial portion of Americans will say yes or no to whatever (like saving babies from a made up country)
Q: Should we send American babies to Poopistan
A: idk probably not
Sadly is hard to explain Climate change in hamburgers so the average american is unable to understand its severity
"Climate change means no burger"
and in fact burger means more climate change. as a result burgers mean no burger
Death to America
Neither party is particularly good on climate change, so there's no reason for it to be a voting issue. Those who actually care about the environment also see that the Dem solutions are useless and only succeed in not being climate accelerationism. Younger generations really care about climate change, to the point it's a main political issue. But neither candidate is doing anything compelling enough to be a voting issue.
I'm not voting, and I'll promise you that Kamala's better views on climate change do nothing to contribute any confidence to vote for her
It's not an issue that we can really vote on in any significant capacity so most of the voting population isn't thinking about it too hard. That, mixed with the fact that younger people are generally more concerned about climate change but also less likely to bother voting also plays a role.