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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Thats our public schools for ya. If one is taught by a moron, one shouldnt expect to become anything else but another moron.
Socialist indoctrination garbage in, garbage out.
It will be the "unfair" health care costs of their parents that is increasing their debt burden in addition to their college debt.
It will be time to off mom and dad.
They had to change the name in the last decade or so, because climate change is harder to argue with than global warming.
Exemption only for those getting social security because they paid into it.
They said the same thing to me in 1974 in HS.
It was a common thought in evangelistic circles that the last times were here so you really didn’t need to plan for the future.
It never made sense to me even then.
re: “Rasmussen: 51% Of Young Voters Believe “
THAT’S because they have been repeatedly TOLD that is quote TRUE unquote.
That is so encouraging.... I would never have guessed that this high a percentage believed that the rapture was this close!
51% of young voters have been fooled.
Absolutely!
We couldn't do anything about it but get on with our lives and enjoy what time we had. And I always thought the phrase "Brain Drain" only referred to a migration pattern.
“Remember the OZone layer and how the hole was going to get so big and burn us all alive by the year 2000?”
Yeah, but they can claim success on that and people will believe it. Though, I am still trying to figure out how R12 which is heavier than air managed to cross the equator and get far into the stratosphere, right at the exact same time that the patent for R12 was expiring.
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.
They are going to be really sad when, in 16 years, they realize that theyve burned through all their savings and inheritance and will have to be baristas for the rest of their lives.
It's probably based on the expectation that survival in the cities will be close to nil and that the five or ten percent who do survive any coming catastrophe will be in rural areas. The people in the cities and the people in the country both seem to know this.
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