In a New York Times/Sienna College Research Institute poll this month, only one percent of participants said that the most important problem facing the country today is climate change. [bold, links added]
Twenty percent of those polled, the highest percentage, said that the economy (including jobs and the stock market) was the greatest problem, and 15 percent said that inflation and the cost of living were their greatest concerns.
Republicans were the demographic most likely to name the economy as their top priority, at 29 percent, with Hispanics right behind them at 28 percent.
In comparison, exactly zero percent of Hispanics said that climate change was at the top of their list of pressing problems.
These numbers grow in significance when you consider that major heat waves had just struck much of the country around the time the poll was conducted.
Ten days after finishing the poll, The New York Times commented on these numbers, displaying some confusion at such low numbers of the public’s concern for an issue they describe as widespread and catastrophic.
“Even among voters under 30, the group thought to be most energized by the issue,” the Times reported, “that figure was 3 percent.”
Their only explanation was that people are distracted from significant issues like climate change by the daily economic issues that eat into their pocketbooks.
The Times quoted former Republican Rep. Carlos Curbelo from South Florida, saying, “In healthier economic times, it’s easier to focus on issues like this [climate change]. Once people get desperate, all that goes out the window.”
Despite spending the entire first half of the article outlining a supposed “climate crisis” occurring throughout the country, the Times quoted Curbelo noting that these crises are not things that “most people” face every day, while issues like inflation are readily apparent to anyone who pulls up to the gas pump.
Read more at The Federalist
If so, then why do our “leaders” insist on nagging us constantly? It’s another thing that they can do nothing about. Is it that they want the carbon taxes to pay the interest on the debt they’ve amassed?
China and India are getting a really good deal from Russia these days. What he’s saying to Europe is if you don’t want fossil fuels, then none for you. What’s Europe doing today? Grasping for fossil fuels. Why? Because their green energy transition hasn’t learned to walk let alone run. Europeans need a healthy dose of global warming this winter.
Once again the Democrat Jackass takes a few more steps to the edge of the Canyon