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Americans underestime climate policy popularity by nearly half

21 points| montalbano | 3 years ago |nature.com

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[+] glitchc|3 years ago|reply
This is not necessarily a contradiction. The vast majority of people support “doing something to save the planet,” and a vast majority also support not being personally affected by that something. It leads to cognitive dissonance which shows up in surveys like these.
[+] no_where|3 years ago|reply
Correct, when told some catastrophe is happening, most will want to do something. However, disagreeing what that "something" should be hardly sounds like congnative dissonance.
[+] PaulHoule|3 years ago|reply
Also the difficulty is not that a majority of people don’t want to do something about it but instead that well-organized minorities can block a solution.
[+] aurora72|3 years ago|reply
You missed the whole point. The purpose of that scientific looking article was to convince you that climate change is caused by human activity, which in reality is not.