More than half of young Americans fear the end of humanity is near because of climate change, according to a recent survey.
The survey results come as the media focus on an autistic Swedish 16-year-old’s “school strike for climate,” which their coverage helped propel to the international stage.
According to a Rasmussen/HarrisX survey, 29 percent of all American voters believe it is “at least somewhat likely that the earth will become uninhabitable and humanity will be wiped out” in the next 15 years.
“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 senior citizens believe it is very likely,” the survey said.
The survey revealed rural Americans do not share city-folks’ concerns. Of those surveyed, 21 percent of urban voters believe that our world will soon become uninhabitable.
Americans in the suburbs and rural areas are comparatively unconcerned: six percent of rural voters and five percent of suburbanites believe imminent doom is upon the world.
The study, which was released on Monday, asked the opinion of 1,000 registered U.S. voters.
Climatologist David Legates of the University of Delaware told LifeSiteNews in an email that the survey “only serves to validate H.L. Mencken’s argument about the aim of practical politics being only to keep the populace alarmed by imaginary hobgoblins.”
Saying that the world has more things to worry about than climate change, he added, “This imaginary disaster takes us away from the real issues we face.”
Placing the blame on the educational system for “creating a nonsensical disaster to instill fear,” Dr. Legates said that the result is to make people so fearful of the future that they will come to trust those offering a purported solution.
“That solution, unfortunately, is designed to remove your freedoms and yield control to a totalitarian state.”
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This only demonstrates that our present generation, while considering itself wise through all the advantages provided by Internet access, has nevertheless been taken in by the clever wiles of propagandists with an agenda. Those wielding power have long employed the maxim: problem –> reaction –> solution. 1)They create a real or imagined problem. 2)The public reacts, begging for a solution 3)Those in power create the solution to the imagined problem. He who controls education controls the future. Public education was set up to be controlled by the people, represented by the school board members they elect. In reality, the school board members most often appoint a superintendent and take the pronouncements of this “expert” at face value, leaving the decision making to him/her.
One point, it may be understood or implied in your comment, is the incestuous relationship between educators and left-ish government. Ontario’s school teachers are some of the most highly compensated anywhere . In return, they lick the hands that feed them.
$trillions of dollars in debt and $trillions more every year . Now that is child abuse . Really so what if it warms as its been doing since the most recent ice age we exit .
Turning future generations into brain washed debt service slaves is nothing to be proud about . It is criminal inter generational servitude and it must stop .
Weather Victim Channel! Thanks for that, Russell. Apt.
The Weather Victim Channel continues to hawk the propaganda by interviews with socialists candidates so according to WVC “present their solutions to climate change”. As usual they have chosen children to march for their pogrom. Next comes climate change uniforms daycare through grade 12; followed by turning in parents and grand parents as deniers……..
If you don’t believe that our Earth is dying, you’re a denier?
If you do believe that the Earth is dying, then you probably consider yourself to be a victim. The Liberals have created another group of “victims” to soothe.
Politics has become worse than sausage – making. It looks and smells like a rendering plant.
Thus proving that over 50% of American youths have successfully turned into zombies.
If I was a kid i’d be more concerned about the massive debt legacy being dumped on me . Just remember $biliions wasted on pretending to set the earths temperature . Either the place goes bankrupt or the young people are going to be tax into oblivion. Maybe both, but its coming a lot faster than some fake temperature rise . Global warming fear mongering is the ultimate distraction strategy . When the middle class is finally wiped out and we are back to lords and serfs I wonder how virtuous the poor are going to feel looking up at castles and walls built to keep them out . You know sort of like Hollywood already is .
And what a coincidence how Hollywood hypocrites are some of the biggest promoters . They kind of want to …you know restore the natural order of things . People of color you know where you fit in with those plans ? Of course you do . Oh by all means vote for the party that fought to retain slavery for a replay.
You know like those Gore tobacco farmers .
The IPCC authors are bought and paid for enablers of the biggest fraud in history .
Yes, and if people can be convinced that they’ve somehow caused the earth’s temperature to rise, they can also be convinced that by paying some tax they can likewise stop that temperature rise. Both ideas are equally foolish.
Sometimes, democracy is depressing. It’s still way better than whatever’s in second place.
Probibly most of them were rasied on junk like Captain Planet and the Planeteers,One Child One Voice,Network Earth Etc and watched crappy movies like Ferngully and read those lie filled liberal written text books
If our schools taught critical thinking skills, people would ask themselves, “What benefit will our government receive from all those carbon taxes they want us to pay?” But they obviously never think of that.
HAHAHAHAHAHA WHY WOULD THEY CARE???? MOST LIVE IN THEIR PARENTS’ HOME…. BASEMENT LEVEL…THEY WILL MAKE THE NOISE AND THEN EXPECT THEIR PARENTS TO PAY….