by HatetheSwamp on April 10, 2022 3:23 pm
The majority of Americans moved gradually to feeling that some kind of action should be taken.
Majority, eh? Some kind of action...
That's a pleasant Blue MAGA myth...and extremely vague at that.
But the issue increasingly divided them along partisan lines; denial became fundamental in right-wing thinking.
Partisan line? There's no doubt that there are differences. Philosophical, perhaps, more than partisan.
But, understand. Your side's problem has always been that, when you say either that it's too late or that we have to act NOW!, no one believes you, not anymore. Your side has proclaimed the sky to be falling too often.
As I noted, people under 40 have been hearing that all their lives. Is climate change something to care about?, well, probably, but is it a crisis? Meh.