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Millennials and Gen Z want to stop a climate catastrophe. But first they have to get elected.
Business Insider ^ | September 22, 2022 | By Eliza Relman

Posted on 09/22/2022 4:48:00 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

… After decades of failure, Democrats finally managed to do something to address the biggest challenge facing the planet. In August, President Joe Biden signed into law a bill that contained significant environmental provisions, including incentivizing clean energy and reducing carbon emissions.

But the bill — dubbed the Inflation Reduction Act — proved to be a compromise package that failed to even acknowledge the climate crisis in its name.

With Democrats bracing to lose their razor-thin majority in the House and a challenging 2024 election-season looming, the party will need to energize younger voters and empower a new generation of leaders to build on its partial climate wins — all while many aged leaders simply refuse to yield.

Climate change is a uniquely generational issue.

There's a clear age divide — particularly among Republicans — when it comes to addressing it. Millennials and Gen Zers across the political spectrum are more likely than their parents and grandparents to support climate action. They're better educated on the issues, and they're more open to structural change. They also have much more at stake — older people will likely be dead before planet Earth experiences the most severe impacts.

Age — particularly among conservatives — is a key divider in Americans' views on climate policy.

Almost half – 47% – of Republicans and Republican-leaning people between the ages of 18 and 29 think the federal government is doing too little to reduce the effects of climate change, but fewer than one in five Americans aged 65 and older said the same, according to a Pew Research Center poll from May. There's a similarly wide gap on many climate-related issues, from whether energy companies should transition to more renewables to whether stricter environmental laws are worth the cost.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; hoax; propaganda; socialism
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1 posted on 09/22/2022 4:48:00 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Then hopefully they stay unelected until they grow up enough to figure out it’s a scam.


2 posted on 09/22/2022 4:53:31 AM PDT by tnlibertarian
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
They're better educated on the issues, and they're more open to structural change.

No, they lack critical thinking skills and don't see that they're being scammed. They also lack the curiosity to research things for themselves and just swallow whole the garbage they're fed by popular culture.

3 posted on 09/22/2022 4:54:46 AM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Millennials and Gen Zers across the political spectrum are more likely than their parents and grandparents to support climate action. They’re better educated on the issues, and they’re more open to structural change.”

Educated = brainwashed and braindead.


4 posted on 09/22/2022 4:54:56 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Climate Change Radicals (Gen Z among them) are already doing more global damage than actual climate change (if indeed there is any) can ever do in the next 500 years.

But that's a feature, not a bug.

Never forget that the whole "CO2 global warming" scam was invented by the neo-malthusian Club of Rome as a tool to force a drastic die-off of human populations. This is only the beginning. Ultimately, YOU are the carbon they want to reduce.

Meanwhile, trust the climate oligarchs to find private profit in public policy.

5 posted on 09/22/2022 4:56:48 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: HYPOCRACY

Exactly.🙄


6 posted on 09/22/2022 4:57:16 AM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first, we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: HYPOCRACY

Exactly.🙄


7 posted on 09/22/2022 4:57:17 AM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first, we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And this is why we need to get control of the schools. This garbage has been indoctrinated into our populace.

Exactly what Obama and Bill Ayers of the Weather Underground have been doing and training for for decades.


8 posted on 09/22/2022 4:57:43 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“They’re better educated on the issues,...”
And are totally uneducated in anything approaching real science...you know, with math & stufff.


9 posted on 09/22/2022 4:58:54 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“It beats working.”


10 posted on 09/22/2022 4:59:16 AM PDT by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’m more worried about Mothra.

This is the perfect example of s Bjg Lie.


11 posted on 09/22/2022 4:59:53 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This is when we actually reach the “Idiocracy” point.

Will there be one sane man left? Stay tuned.


12 posted on 09/22/2022 5:04:59 AM PDT by dforest
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“The climate” has already been destroyed—too late now:

https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-of-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions/

;-)


13 posted on 09/22/2022 5:05:18 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
They're better educated brainwashed on the issues
14 posted on 09/22/2022 5:07:16 AM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: Skywise

“this is why we need to get control of the schools”

This is why we need to get rid of the schools.

Large institutions always become leftist indoctrination centers.

We have the technology to end it.

Otherwise we will be fighting skirmishes that will end in defeat.


15 posted on 09/22/2022 5:07:26 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: HYPOCRACY

If they truly are concerned about the climate, they wouldn’t be destroying the rainforests so the Chinese can make EV batteries


16 posted on 09/22/2022 5:12:38 AM PDT by digger48
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To: tnlibertarian

Propaganda from birth...works.


17 posted on 09/22/2022 5:23:20 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We are in the beginning stages of Gaia Worship being fully exposed for the incredibly harmful cult and fraud that it is.

Europe will be an object lesson for everyone. You can’t power a modern economy with unicorn farts. Nor can you conserve your way out of the need for large amounts of energy delivered reliably and at low cost.

Oh, and of course there is no “climate catastrophe” or anything of the kind. These Cassandras have been peddling this crap since the 60s. The cause changes be it the depletion of resources, the coming ice age, the ozone hole, global warming, climate change.....but the “solution” to the “problem” never changes. That right there tells you all you need to know.


18 posted on 09/22/2022 5:23:42 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I understand is the Gen z is actually conservative. Also, they are young so they’re still afraid of things that they haven’t had time to fully think about. They just believe what some crazy professor told them. As they get older they’ll come around. Well, most of them will.


19 posted on 09/22/2022 5:30:28 AM PDT by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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To: Da Coyote; HYPOCRACY; tnlibertarian; facedown; dforest; BiteYourSelf
Old people are so cute when they forget things.

Remember how the boomers were drugged out hippies, and GenXers were flannel wearing depressives? Well, surprise....we grew up and elected Trump.

But THIS generation, the old people say, THEY will be our downfall. The fogeys KNOW because after they rail from behind their keyboards about media bias, they lap up the MSM propaganda, erm, reporting from the left coasts, about what the GenZers and Millenials want.

Here's a novel idea. Talk to ACTUAL people under 35. The majority of these "kids" are hard working (some have 2-3 jobs), focused on their careers, and don't listen to NPR (they actually listen to podcasts). Yes, some of them are pod-eating snowflakes but they tend to live in NYC or LA...where the MSM lives and from which they try to lie to you.

The younger generation is more libertarian then the fogeys, but that doesn't mean they're for the destruction of life, liberty or property. They also were raised by a lot of selfish divorced parents, and can be forgiven if they start a family later. If anything, the Deplorable youths are more conservative than their parents, and THAT is a good thing. But you won't see that in the press...the same press their affinity-biased parents allegedly detest.

Don't be fooled by the MSM. It makes you age faster.

20 posted on 09/22/2022 5:32:52 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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