Posted on 09/24/2019 8:52:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Over the next 10-15 years, 29% of all voters believe it is at least somewhat likely that the earth will become uninhabitable and humanity will be wiped out. A ScottRasmussen.com national survey found that 71% disagree and find it unlikely.
The totals include 10% who consider it Very Likely and 37% who say Not at All Likely.
There is a dramatic difference by age on this question. Half (51%) of voters under 35 believe it is at least somewhat likely humanity will be wiped out in the next decade or so. Only 12% of senior citizens agree (and only 4% of seniors believe it is Very Likely).
In the early days of the Cold War, many young people had similar concerns that the world would be destroyed by nuclear weapons. Another generation was convinced that overpopulation would devastate the human race by the 1980s. While we do not have comparable polling data for those periods, the response of young people today seems very similar.
The data also reveals a significant geographical divide. Forty-five percent (45%) of urban residents think humanity may be wiped out by climate change in 10-15 years. Only 23% of rural voters and 22% of suburban voters agree.
Twenty-one percent (21%) of urban voters consider it Very Likely the earth will quickly become uninhabitable. Just 6% of rural voters and 5% of suburban voters consider that a Very Likely outcome (see crosstab results).
Data released earlier showed that just 10% of voters were aware the Global Climate Strike had been scheduled for last week.
ScottRasmussen.com releases new public opinion data every day relating to topics in the news and other items of interest.
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This is one scary poll.
You are entirely correct. The massive brainwashing is impressive.
Courtesy of your local public school system. The teachers are just as stupid and gullible as the “graduates” they’re turning out.
One mark of effective propaganda/psyops/strategic communications is, “Deliver your message, measure the effectiveness, repeat” - and they’re doing a helluva job.
Global thermonuclear war was a much more credible threat than "climate change".
The collapse of the USSR did much to alleviate that threat, and the perception of it.
Welll....being that I’m not stupid, even I believe we COULD be wiped out.
An asteroid the size of NYC, or an equally big comet COULD hit the Earth.
The Sun could go out or go nova (very unlikely, but we still don’t know all the factors why this happens at all).
Jesus could return.
Some terrorist gets his hands on a nuclear missile.
??? who knows what else.
I could get hit by a bus in an hour, so the world would at least end for me...
No, about the LIKELYHOOD? Not very likely. What time is the doomsday clock at now?
“We have always been at war with Eastasia.”
“when all these gullible kids eventually figure out they have been lied to and hood-winked.. they will most likely be the future of conservatism”
Problem is society by then will already have been changed to the worse. Guns will have been taken, people put into apartment style housing, no individual transportation, internet will be controlled.
Intersesting question.
I believe I was about 8 years old.
I did not have the knowledge and skill and information to understand how much I was being lied to until at least 20 years later.
So, to be more succinct, 51% of young people are idiots without a clue.
I was certainly taught to think for myself by my parents, and even by teachers I had at school. Peer pressure being what it is though you do fall into a lot of groupthink as a teen.
We all used to grow out of it. Not anymore, at least by my observation.
If the youngsters continue to swallow the crap being fed to them by the liberals, this Republic will be dead long before that.
Wishful thinking
Doomsday death cult. We can’t coexist with these suicidal freaks.
I don’t see any of this supposed 51% stocking up on doomsday supplies.
What do we expect. They hear it at school starting in preschool. On TV, movies, books, music, social media, from the mouths of actors, singers, “influencers”.
Any wonder a large number of young people suffer from anxiety, depression, hopelessness?
“Think back. When did you start thinking for yourself? “
About the age of four when I told my non-smoking father I wanted to start smoking.
“When they become 50.001% of the electorate this country is SCROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!”
No worries. They are so stupid that they won’t be able to find the polling locations.
Blame public indoc-ucation.
Let’s see, that puts me at around 82. Okay I’m good with that.
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