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Amid COVID-19, Americans don’t care about climate change anymore
Battered by pandemic and economic collapse, do Americans have the capacity to care about the environment? Not so much, judging by a national poll we just conducted.
We asked a panel of U.S. adults a series of questions about today’s most crucial issues, environmental policy options, and their own behavior. In all three categories, I was personally surprised and discouraged to discover that our devotion to the world around us is flagging.
In a survey we at the Harris Poll conducted last December, American adults said climate change was the number one issue facing society. Today, it comes in second to last on a list of a dozen options, ahead of only overpopulation. Among Gen X men, in fact, more than third dismiss climate change as unimportant. COVID-19 and the recession have, of course, reordered priorities around the world. Still, the coronavirus didn’t elbow aside other issues as muscularly as it did climate change. (Incidentally, global warming is a bigger concern to retirement-age women than any other age group except millennial men.)
Additionally, we asked about policies the government could adopt to fight global warming or help the environment generally. There was majority support for only one of nine initiatives, with 51% endorsing tax credits or rebates for greater energy efficiency in buildings. Moreover, 13% of all respondents say the government should do nothing to improve the environment, a stance that rises to nearly one in five of all survey takers in the South.
More telling is what we are doing—or should I say what we no longer are doing.
We know from this survey, conducted on July 24, that American adults are burning less fuel than they did before the pandemic hit. In pre-COVID-19 America, 77% of adults said they used to drive. Today, with more people working from home, or not working at all, just 61% say they are using their cars to get around. Similarly, only 14% of adults say they are still flying, down from 21% last winter. That’s an environmental plus, since it means we’re pumping less greenhouse gas into the air.
But we are also reverting back to a society that throws too much away. Younger men in particular are ordering more takeout food, packed in single-use plastic bags and disposable boxes, often with those plastic straws scorned for littering the landscape and polluting waterways. We are toting reusable bags less often on errands. Probably because more of us are home, we also are consuming more energy to keep our homes cooler in the summer and warmer in chilly months than we used to.
And when the pandemic ends—or at least is suitably controlled—American adults say they’ll behave in ways that would increase their carbon footprint. According to our survey, we’ll drive as much as we did before, take public transportation less, bicycle or walk less, buy more clothes, and have more stuff packaged up and shipped to our homes. And most of us plan to jack up the home AC and heat even more than we already have.
There are some bright spots for the environmental cause. Americans are shifting their diets away from meat. (Cattle for dairy and beef production is one of the biggest sources of greenhouse gases, accounting for approximately 15% of worldwide emissions.) Two-thirds of us say we currently recycle at home, and even more say we will, though how much of what we put in our blue bins actually gets recycled is another matter. Air travel won’t be coming back to pre-pandemic levels, our survey shows. And we say we’ll pick up our reusable bags again.
One last point: Americans know the consequences of backsliding. We asked the survey’s 1,083 representative respondents whether COVID-19 was good or bad for the environment short term and long term. The multiple choice option chosen the most, at 39%, is that it is helping short term, but causing long-term damage.
Maybe when we’re feeling safer and more prosperous, we’ll care more about the fate of our planet. For now, though, global warming isn’t the rallying cause it was only a few months ago.
Will Johnson is CEO of the Harris Poll, one of the world’s leading public opinion research firms.
62 Comments on "Amid COVID-19, Americans don’t care about climate change anymore"
bochen777 on Mon, 10th Aug 2020 10:40 pm
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supertards please change ur underwear after 5 days on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 1:00 am
we’re all in this together
we can stop CONVICT-19
Abraham van Helsing on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 1:16 am
Americans are excused to not care, for the moment…
https://time.com/5864374/coronavirus-carbon-emissions/
“The Coronavirus Pandemic Has Caused Carbon Emissions To Drop. But That Likely Won’t Last”
Not that in the US climate change was ever a focal point of political action:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-41904650
“Paris climate accord: Syria to sign up, isolating US”
#MakingAmericaWarmAgain
Cloggie on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 2:31 am
Existing airplanes can be fairly easily retrofitted to burn hydrogen-in-the-form-of-ammonia:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8611587/Zero-emission-ammonia-fuelled-aeroplanes-skies-years.html
“Zero-emissions aeroplanes that use AMMONIA as jet fuel rather than kerosene could take to the skies ‘within years’, British scientists claim”
Cloggie on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 2:39 am
3 persons can install 500 panels per day in a solar park setup or 0.15 MW peak/day (obviously not on roofs of private homes).
https://www.wattisduurzaam.nl/28518/energie-opwekken/zonne-energie/team-van-3-man-m-v-x-installeert-500-zonnepanelen-per-dag/
Secret: prefab solar modules “Maverick”. Australian company 5B.
Hilariously, with working in this way, solar modules could even play a role in “crop rotation”. So, if you want to give a field a year or so rest from agricultural use, roll out your solar modules like an oriental carpet.
With thin film solar this is even easier to implement:
https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2019/04/20/solar-carpet/
“Solar carpet”
zero juan on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 4:13 am
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Davy on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 4:15 am
“Paris climate accord: Syria to sign up, isolating US”
Paris accord is a sick joke cloggo, it gives China and India the opportunity to continue to grow their energy mix with coal. You really are confused.
Davy on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 4:24 am
“Existing airplanes can be fairly easily retrofitted to burn hydrogen-in-the-form-of-ammonia:”
BS, not easily and the cost will be prohibitive. I hope this process gets off the ground but it will likely only be a niche player. You won’t be retrofitting planes cost effectively. Planes are barely economic now and what makes them economic is mass travel. That may be a thing of the past.
Hello on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 7:11 am
>>ascendchina.ch
>>df41.ch
why is this shit registered in Switzerland?
This year is one of the best years in Switzerland for a VERY long time. Why? All those chinese fucks have to stay home and can’t clog up our beautiful cities. And if you know chinese, you know what I’m talking about. They can’t even close their moth when eating, slobbering all over the place. Disgusting bat-eaters, CHINESE BACK TO CHINA !!!
Davy on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 7:28 am
Hello, bochen777 is a juanPee sock. juanPee is obsessed with the Chinese. What I can’t figure out is why the fuck wants to live in Miami Beach if he loves China so much. He gives the lame answer that the weather is so lovely and his wife, who wears the pants, wants to live there. Most men with balls would not live somewhere because of the weather. A real man would go where he needs to go. His China shit is just a manifestation of his anti-American Sinophile derangement. The fuck is truly mental these days.
I am been lobbying the moderators on the other side of the forum to shit can him. Maybe something will come of this. I am waiting for him to fuck up real bad then I will present them with good actionable evidence of the piece of shit he is.
bochen777 on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 7:30 am
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zero juan on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 7:39 am
juanPee sock:
bochen777 on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 7:30 am
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Hello on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 8:03 am
>>> his wife, who wears the pants,
LOL
Sissyfuss on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 8:55 am
Sars-Cov-2 was a wake-up call that was necessary but unanswered. We are in overshoot being crammed into a bottleneck that few will emerge from. Growth always has its limits but humans are programmed to ignore that and keep on breeding and consuming to excess. The party’s over and it’s time to clean up the resultant mess.
Outcast_Searcher on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 3:34 pm
WAKE UP. Americans NEVER cared about climate change. As soon as surveys asked about the cost being slightly inconvenient vs. trivial, Americans were, overall, against doing anything meaningful about climate change.
Full stop.
Abraham van Helsing on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 4:05 pm
WAKE UP. Americans NEVER cared about climate change. As soon as surveys asked about the cost being slightly inconvenient vs. trivial, Americans were, overall, against doing anything meaningful about climate change.
Full stop.
“United States withdrawal from the Paris Agreement”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_withdrawal_from_the_Paris_Agreement
The US gov, until Trump, had since 1933 one goal only and that is to attempt to ram the entire world into a single world empire, run by oligarchs with exceptional noses (hence “exceptionalism”). No time for trivialities like fighting climate change, got bigger fish to fry, even if one of the US deep state big wigs (the inventor of the hydrogen bomb Teller) warned what could happen:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/jan/01/on-its-hundredth-birthday-in-1959-edward-teller-warned-the-oil-industry-about-global-warming
“On its 100th birthday in 1959, (((Edward Teller))) warned the oil industry about global warming”
Oh, since 2016 the world knows that the NWO project is going to fail majestically.
/snicker
Pass the popcorn.
Duncan Idaho on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 4:21 pm
‘Failed in almost every conceivable way’: How the pandemic humbled and humiliated the United States
https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/failed-in-almost-every-conceivable-way-how-the-humbled-and-humiliated-the-united-states/
The Fat Boy has been bankrupt 6 times.
Failure is something he excels at.
Abraham van Helsing on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 4:23 pm
“And what of the mysterious action in Bedminster, New Jersey, Mr. Trump’s hideaway? He made the enigmatic remark last week at a campaign stop in Ohio: “I have a lot of rich enemies. You won’t see me for a while.” Rumors abound in the non-seditionist news media that something ugly is about to drop… So, buckle up for what, all of a sudden, looks like an action-packed week. Lay in some tonic water and gin for both Covid-19 relief and some self-prescribed anesthesia as America unleashes its dogs of war upon itself.”
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/let-the-dogs-out/
Abraham van Helsing on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 4:25 pm
The Fat Boy has been bankrupt 6 times.
Failure is something he excels at.
He is also your president, where you are posting from your mother’s basement, since nobody else wants you.
Did you ever got laid, dunkan?
Abraham van Helsing on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 4:32 pm
That sounds pretty rich of meaning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQfmlAH62Z4
“I think we have one chance of doing it and no other president is going to do what I do”
My hunch: that “one chance” means one chance for white America to escape from ZOG because system dissident Trump owns the presidency. He is going to use his presidency to wreck empire and the US itself, possibly via looking from trouble in the South China Sea, maneuver America into war with China and cancel the elections.
Davy on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 4:33 pm
“United States withdrawal from the Paris Agreement”
The accord is a sick joke of pandering fools so stop the nonsense, cloggo. You demonstrate just how fake green you are. There is not an once of green in you. The only reason you like green is the idea of something to power your fraudulent PBM empire fantasy.
Davy on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 4:35 pm
“Did you ever got laid, dunkan?”
cloggo, dumbcan is in his mid 70’s and like mak the wak surely doesn’t even get a hard on anymore.
Duncan Idaho on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 4:36 pm
“I believe the president and the doctor who believes in demon sperm and the medical use of space alien DNA, and not Anthony S. Fauci, who’s an “alarmist” and “wrong.”
I believe the president’s suggestions that physicians should try injecting patients with household disinfectants, and shining ultraviolet light inside their bodies, make perfect sense.”
I’m dumb, a repug and proud of it!
Davy on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 5:02 pm
cloggo, I am in my mid 70s’s, and just like you I dont even get a hard on anymore.
Except for you cloggnatzi fraud (wink wink).
Abraham van Helsing on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 5:11 pm
“United States withdrawal from the Paris Agreement”
The accord is a sick joke of pandering fools so stop the nonsense, cloggo. You demonstrate just how fake green you are. There is not an once of green in you. The only reason you like green is the idea of something to power your fraudulent PBM empire fantasy.
You forgot the pig with lipstick routine and the “ROFL”.
the board on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 5:13 pm
JuanP on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 5:02 pm
“cloggo, I am in my mid 70s’s, and just like you I dont even get a hard on anymore. Except for you cloggnatzi fraud (wink wink).”
juanPee, you are mid 50’s quit acting older than your age
Davy on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 5:14 pm
“You forgot the pig with lipstick routine and the “ROFL”.”
You got me mistaken for the lunatic juanPPee. I say LMFAO, he says the ROTFLOL. You are getting as dimwitted as mak the wak.
makati1 on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 5:31 pm
Amerikans only care about themselves. An immoral. immature, greedy bunch of dumbed down village idiots, for the most part. Just reading the “news” about happenings there is proof. Never has a nation self-destructed with such speed.
Glad I do not not live there anymore and pay no taxes to the Police State Gulag called Amerika.
Abraham van Helsing on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 5:34 pm
“Kamala Harris is Joe Biden’s running mate”
https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/2020-election-biden-vp-pick/index.html
If Biden would win, the US will have its first female president in a few months time.
Davy on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 5:41 pm
“Amerikans only care about themselves. An immoral. immature, greedy bunch of dumbed down village idiots, for the most part. Just reading the “news” about happenings there is proof. Never has a nation self-destructed with such speed.”
Look in the mirror goofball. You are an American who is greedy, immature and dumbed down. You never had an education and appear to be on the run from something. Stop the hypocrisy.
the miseducation of uncle sam on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 6:16 pm
context
for thousands of years, china regarded herself as superior, the outside world are full of barbarians
opium wars british caused hartbreaking destruction in china
ww2 japanese destroyed china, hartbraking huaman suffering
uncle same minded his own biz
Mr. Spock: only nixon can go to china
never trust a hardliner, he does 180 and pulled china out of her supeiority complex
when it comes time to teach uncle sam out of good will
china harvested their muzzies and propelled herself form 3rd word to most powerful nation in a few year.
sun tzu: know your enemy
supertard bochen777: sex with white women
this is the biggest piece of malfeasance the world has ever knewn. why does a supertard chose hate over love and advancement of humanity, especiall uncle sam who did nothing to china
china went on to be leader of the world, uncle sam recedes to third world status, burdened by muzzies like india of present time
uncle sam never had a chance
miseducation of unclea sam on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 6:19 pm
britiain industrialized and led the world using child labor on a massive scale
china harvest muzzies because they learned from britain
but now when it times to do a favor and teach uncle sam, we see no scientists and engineers from china assisting us to harvest our muzzies.
we see generous threats of using icbm’s DF-41 on uncle sam.
this is the miseducation of uncle sam
uncle sam dindu nutin to china only help china on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 6:21 pm
proof:
mr. spock: only nixon can go to china
without nixon china still thinks herself as supeior and the world are barbarians
they probably built more walls like the great walls
makati1 on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 6:30 pm
Davy, Amerikan by birth. Filipino by choice. YUGE difference!
I’m not supporting the insanity in Amerika, YOU are. I’m just getting back my 50 year investment in SS, which I was forced to pay. You will never see any SS. It will be dead before you are.
HYPOCRITE is YOUR middle name, and typical of Amerika as a lying, hypocritical country. I’m happy to watch it go down the shitter and become a poor, 3rd world country, not able to cause trouble all over the world in the name of greed. So be it. Soon, I hope.
BTW: A warm, rainy, Wednesday morning here in the land of eternal summer. ^_^
Davy on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 6:42 pm
“Davy, Amerikan by birth. Filipino by choice. YUGE difference!”
You are just a worn out old man quit talking yourself up like you are special. I think that is what is so nasty about you and juanPee. You two are stuck on yourselves like your shit don’t stink. All I see is two assholes.
zero juan on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 6:43 pm
dipshit get help:
uncle sam dindu nutin to china only help china said proof: mr. spock: only nixon can go to china wit…
miseducation of unclea sam said britiain industrialized and led the world using ch…
the miseducation of uncle sam said context for thousands of years, china regarded her…
miseducation of uncle same uncle sam dindu nutin to china but now china militarized against uncle sam on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 7:28 pm
uncle sam will support taiwan but taiwan better be smart and go nukular because uncle sam can’t defend allies and abandoned allies before
the dominoes theory applies so china will take over india
uncle sam can help india but india has 200 million muzzies so it’s like massive jizya to muzzies in india
miseducation of uncle sam has consequencds
supertard bochen777 is mean on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 7:30 pm
uncle sam dindu nuting to china
instead of teaching uncle same harvest our muzzies, supertard bochen777 said: sex with white women
this is fake education. real education is sun tzu: know your enemy
bad supertard bochen777 now tell uncle sam have some DF-41
bad ICBM with nukular.
China has enough neighboring enemies, give the nukes the same way N Korea is enabled by china and has nukes.
iran approves china harvesting muzzies on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 7:35 pm
if uncle sam harvest muzzies, iran or some other muzz country will approve
supertard bochen777 miseducated uncle sam
shame to supertard bochen777
uncle sam withdraw from middle east allow caliphate or erdogan caliphate on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 7:37 pm
muzz will go jihad because there’s a caliphate
uncle sam harvest muzzies
china deals with caliphate
Duncan Idaho on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 7:39 pm
Donald Trump Was Once A Kamala Harris Donor
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala-harris-donald-trump-donor_n_5f330497c5b6960c066d8fb5
(Trump donated a total of $6,000 to Harris’ campaign for California attorney general. He gave her money in 2011 and again in 2013. Ivanka Trump donated to her attorney general campaign, too: $2,000 in 2014.)
8 muzz Suffer Premature Detonation… on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 7:44 pm
ljs
makati1 on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 7:45 pm
Davy, I’m not a lair and hypocrite like yourself. I post facts not lies. What I post is reality. My world is obviously not the one you inhabit. Must be drugs, or did your daddy drop you on your head when you were a baby? You really need help.
You cannot stand to have someone living a happy, healthy, fun life while you molder on that weed infested patch you call a farm. You are nothing more than a serf. A tax slave to the Police State. Now going thru the fastest decent of a country since…?
Two insane, demented, senile old men vying to run the dying country called “Amerika”. What a show! The whole world is laughing and cheering on the US destruction from within. ^_^
makati1 on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 7:50 pm
“Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.”
Example: Amerika!
Chrome Mags on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 8:05 pm
Some cared, most didn’t. What else is new in the land of the mighty $? No excuses needed to care. Even when sea level rise is unignorable, the denial will remain steadfast.
Somalia prison: Deadly shootout after al-Shabab militants attempt escape on Tue, 11th Aug 2020 9:38 pm
need to send muzzie FGM NASTY back home
Richard Guenette on Wed, 12th Aug 2020 12:39 pm
Where are the “Green” political parties when climate change is happening in front of us.
Davy on Thu, 13th Aug 2020 6:04 am
“This Is Amerika: Where Fascism, Totalitarianism And Militarism Go Hand-In-Hand”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/amerika-where-fascism-totalitarianism-and-militarism-go-hand-hand
“The American experiment in freedom is failing fast… “We the people” are not the masters anymore. What you smell is the stench of a dying republic. Our dying republic.”
Abraham van Helsing on Thu, 13th Aug 2020 6:22 am
“The American experiment in freedom is failing fast… “We the people” are not the masters anymore. What you smell is the stench of a dying republic. Our dying republic.”
Not to mention dying empire.
Greeting from Eurasia!
https://parisberlinmoscow.wordpress.com/2020/08/04/grece-nouvelle-droite/
the board on Thu, 13th Aug 2020 6:44 am
the stupid fucking hypocrite, juanPee, whines about Zero Hedge but then uses it for most of his comments. What a stupid low IQ south American skumbag:
JuanP on Thu, 13th Aug 2020 6:04 am
“This Is Amerika: Where Fascism, Totalitarianism And Militarism Go Hand-In-Hand”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/amerika-where-fascism-totalitarianism-and-militarism-go-hand-hand
“The American experiment in freedom is failing fast… “We the people” are not the masters anymore. What you smell is the stench of a dying republic. Our dying republic.”