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US voters linking climate crisis to rising bills despite Trump’s ‘green scam’ claims | New polling shows 65% of registered US voters believe global heating is affecting cost of living (www.theguardian.com)
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[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

So the number of people who deny man made climate change is actually different than the number of people who think it’s not changing.

There is a good chunk of (relatively smarter) conservatives that do understand it’s changing, but just because it has changed before, 100% believe we have absolutely no effect on it.

So ironically, the portion of people who think we should change our behaviour to deal with the changes is higher than the portion who think we should change to stop it from happening.

Dealing with climate change would make preventing the man made effects easier, so I consider this a win.

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