Media coverage of the recent global “Climate Strike” featured many young marchers eager to share their belief that the world soon will end due to climate change. Their zeal for this belief earned them the name of “climate brats” in some reports. A new survey now finds that the majority of them think life will end on Earth in a decade or so.
What about everybody else? The end is not necessarily near.
“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,” says a timely new Scott Rasmussen/HarrisX national survey.
Keep in mind, though, that 71% overall disagree with this finding and say Armageddon is an unlikely prospect.
“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.
EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s FAA touts new AI-powered tool helping thousands of passengers avoid flight delays
Congress returns to brutal lame-duck stretch with shutdown deadline, leadership races: ‘Closet is full of s—’
Gaza protests continue same revolutionary ‘omni-cause’ given life by Black Lives Matter
Bernie Sanders warns Democrats not to spend all their time investigating Trump
Two Washington deputies killed trying to rescue possible hostages after woman shot
Dallas public defender’s chief investigator charged with wife’s murder after bloody apartment discovery
Tensions flare as demonstrators target Jewish restaurants, drawing massive counterprotest
Joe Biden says cancer slowed him down, limiting memoir promotion tour
Trump says he was ‘only kidding’ about making Dana White press secretary
Elon Musk’s Austin home targeted by well-funded leftist groups aboard party buses
Video shows small plane clip pickup truck during emergency landing on busy Florida road
Deputy White House Chief of Staff Richard Walters exits job ahead of Stephen Miller takeover
Gun Rights Under Threat in Unlikely Places as Midterm Wipeout Hands Gun-Control Advocates Major Foothold
Collision between two trains in Egypt kills seven and injures more than 100
After GOP’s brutal midterms, ‘Chuck Norris of Florida politics’ tells party to ‘get up and fight’
The data also revealed a significant geographical divide: 21% of urban voters consider it very likely the earth will quickly become uninhabitable, compared to 6% of rural voters and 5% of suburban voters. The poll of 1,000 registered U.S. voters was conducted Sept. 11-12 and released Monday.
Story cited here.
