Essay by Eric Worrall
“Why haven’t Democratic politicians done more to prioritize this issue” – the dying gasp of a failing administration?
Why Democrats Are Disillusioned Over Climate Change
By Zoha Qamar
JUL. 22, 2022, AT 6:00 AMSenate Democrats’ monthslong effort to negotiate a budget reconciliation bill with ambitious climate change provisions crumbled last week when Sen. Joe Manchin announced he wouldn’t back the proposed legislation. It now appears unlikely that Congress will pass any substantive environmental legislation ahead of this year’s midterm elections. And although President Biden did issue some executive orders on Wednesday to address climate change — and is expected to announce more in the coming days — activists have criticized those measures as not going far enough.
This lack of action on climate change is becoming a real problem for Democrats, as it’s something their voters really want. In mid-January, the Pew Research Centerasked Americans which among 18 issues should be a top priority for Congress and the president to address, and 65 percent of Democrats selected climate change, ranking it as their fourth-most-important issue.
For the most part, Democrats overwhelmingly support the Biden administration’s policies combating climate change: 79 percent, per a survey conducted by Pew in early May, said Biden’s environmental policies were moving the country in the right direction. The problem is that, even among Democrats who approve of the Biden administration’s approach, three in five (61 percent) still think the administration could be doing more — and this was even before Manchin torpedoed Democrats’ latest environmental policy efforts.
This has created a situation where Democrats, especially younger ones, are dissatisfied with how climate change is being addressed. Younger Americans of both parties are more likely than older Americans to rate climate change as a top priority, and in the Pew poll from May, younger Democrats were also more likely to say that the Biden administration should be doing more. Nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of U.S. adults under 30 said the administration should be doing more, compared with 54 percent of those over 65 who said the same.
Why haven’t Democratic politicians done more to prioritize this issue, given its importance to Democratic voters? Climate change just isn’t an issue other Americans prioritize.
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Read more: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-democrats-are-disillusioned-over-climate-change/
Its easy to laugh, I told you so. I mean, nobody who looked at Biden’s track record should have expected any actual achievements during his term of office.
But the fact so many young people are still worrying themselves sick under the delusion that the world is experiencing a climate crisis is way too tragic for me to feel much like laughing.
Young democrats are also the least likely to vote. That’s why democrats invented election month because election day is too inconvenient for them.
Underlying this phenomenon are important drivers that allow or encourage young people to believe in an unproven doom on the doorstep. If we don’t recognize the failure of education to teach critical thinking, the failure of media to objectively report the truth, the failure of the political and administrative class to govern according to the law and for the best interests of the citizens and the failure of voters to make their choices objectively and for their own best interests then we will never solve this issue.
“Younger Americans of both parties are more likely than older Americans to rate climate change as a top priority,”
Americans in general need to think about why it is the young that are most concerned about “climate change”.
Why is it that older Americans, who have supposedly lived through the climate changes, are not as concerned?
Since the young only know what they have been taught, not having actually experienced any climate change, the blame for their concern must fall squarely upon the education system.
Critical Race Theory isn’t the only “subject” that needs to be purged from our schools.
This makes no sense. If Democrats are so hot for action on climate change, then why is >$5 gasoline a political problem for them? High-priced fossil fuels are part of the solution, or do they not understand this?
From the article: “Younger Americans of both parties are more likely than older Americans to rate climate change as a top priority,”
The young ones are a little more susceptible to propaganda and brainwashing. And the alarmists are making a big effort to propagadize them about the climate, with some success.
Repeat a lie often enough and some people believe it. Those afflicted with Trump Derangement Syndrome are a good example of this type of mind manipulation.
Trump said last night in a speech that the Climate Crisis was a HOAX! He made fun of those who try to claim that severe weather events are evidence of human-caused climate change.
This is good news. This gives conservatives incentive to question the climate change crisis. Note that Trump is not questioning that CO2 might have some role in the climate, he is rather questioning the connection between CO2 and severe weather.
I think this is a tack that needs to be taken by the Republicans. The Republicans should scoff at the alarmist claims of a connection between CO2 and the weather and can successfully challenge the alarmists to prove their claims, which we all know they cannot do. All they can do is make more claims. Republicans should expose the inability of alarmists to connect CO2 to severe weather events. Just saying is is so, doesn’t make is so, and Republicans should hold the alamist’s feet to the fire. Make them prove their claims that CO2 is causing the heatwave in the U.S. and Europe.
Trump calling the climate crisis a HOAX is the first step. Everyone should get on board this “Climate Crisis is a HOAX” train.
Biden says there is a climate crisis. Trump says it is a hoax. Let’s have this discussion, and no doubt we will, now that Trump has planted his banner.
I think Trump is going to run for president again. I’m going to vote for him if he does.
The sad thing is Uncle Joe can’t explain why he is only doing 3/4 speed damage to the country on behalf of special interest group donors. His Party wackos want the full bore leap from the cliff and then blame (retire) Joe on the bad outcomes.