Weirdly, they forgot to ask if Americans are willing to spend lots of their own money and give up their freedom and life choices
Survey: Americans ready to take climate action
Most Americans are willing to take steps to help address climate change, a new survey finds.
Why it matters: While some Americans still haven’t accepted climate change’s impact, most believe it’s a major threat.
What they did: Environmental company Veolia and French research and consulting firm Elabe polled 2,000 U.S. adults online between Oct. 17 and Nov. 6, 2023, as part of their “Barometer of Ecological Transformation,” a regular report on global views surrounding climate change.
What they found: 61% of Americans feel vulnerable to a lower quality of life due to climate change, while 57% worry about climate-related health risks, per the survey.
61% of Americans are open to drinking recycled wastewater in the face of water shortages, 74% would eat food grown using recycled water, and 82% would pay more to filter microplastics out of their drinking water.
Interesting. Except none of those are about ‘climate change’, but, actually environmental issues. I’m in on the microplastics stuff. But, what of actual questions about people practicing what they preach? I’m not going to download the survey, since it requires registration. But, I’ve read a bunch of other articles, and none go further than the Axios one above. Why are most surveys afraid to ask the tough questions about people living the carbon neutral lifestyle?
