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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Everyone loves a good distopian fiction. I loved Omega Man and Soylent Green and The Stand. Actually The Stand started out pretty good but ended up really stupid and confusing like all Stephen King stories. But Omega Man was good. And Planet of the Apes. And I have been watching Walking Dead for years. Our young people think that the world will end because that is easier for them than it is to get a job and support themselves with the lame ass indoctrination that they were told was going to prepare them to be global citizens.
The good news... 49% of our youth still see through the full court press to propagandize them.
“the good news... 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”
With NO country of Europe having children at a rate of eben replacement,let alone increase, there is only a MUZZY FUTURE for all of Europe ....
The USA will only be “Latinized”..much better than MUZZYFIED..
These young people were raised on video games and escapist sit com plots.
At that age, I had already read most of the stuff that was ‘required reading’ in college
I agree. We could be wiped out within 15 years. Asteroid strike, EMP, pandemic, CME, financial collapse, nuclear war.
These are the things people should be worried about.
I agree. We could be wiped out within 15 years. Asteroid strike, EMP, pandemic, CME, financial collapse, nuclear war.
These are the things people should be worried about.
Yet, they continue to contribute to the earth’s demise by their very existence.
They taught every last one of us the same thing in 5th and 6th grades. That was in 1969 and 1970. By 1974 I figured most of the populist message was pure crap. It’s part of growing up.
How many of those are leftists who consider wiping out humanity a worthy goal?
If the sun went out or went nova it'd be 9 minutes before we knew.
Nothing personal...but do you really think the over 25s are much better than the newbie voters? In general..there is so much ignorance in our population it is hard to split it up based on age. We seem to be heading to political and social chaos and soon military or paramilitary rule.
Oh yes. It's a maturity thing. I guess, since there are so many stupid people you might be better off just getting rid of the franchise altogether, but reality dictates you have to make some points of distinction. Eliminate the stupider and the stupidest, and keep the simply stupid.
I wonder where the so-called young people got that idea from.
Yeap that is about right. 25 to 35 is when people are able to think for themselves. Not just rebel against their parents.
As far as the newbie voter thing is concerned, 35 is the new 18.
THAT is why we’re SCROOOOOOD.
In the first case there was at least some basis in reality but hysteria was driven up by educators and Hollywood. In the latter case it is much more extreme because of the almost total control of our children's minds by socialist 'educators' in both lower and higher education and constant bombardment of all of us by all facets of the media using false facts, projections and fear mongering.
I am convinced when this hysteria is finally behind us(one way or the other ; ), another will rise to take it's place because there are just too many sheep in humanity that beg to be herded instead of actually thinking for themselves.
What a bunch of gullible pansy-asses.
Stupidity is this countries most expensive commodity.
Then they don’t need social security or relief from student loans.
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