Climate change is hitting close to home for nearly 2 out of 3 Americans, poll finds

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Climate change is hitting close to home for nearly 2 out of 3 Americans, poll finds
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But, as another article looking at the same poll notes, "almost three-quarters of Republicans (72%) said the economy should be given priority, even at the risk of ignoring climate change. That is up 13 points since 2018 – despite the increases in climate-change-related weather disasters."

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Infuriating, but not surprising. They're convinced the consequences of it are only going to hit poor and non-white people in the global south, and they don't see them suffering and dying en masse as anything worth panicking about because they're genocidal shitheads.

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