30 Million Americans Are Very Angry About Climate Change

That’s A Good Thing

The Yale Project on Climate Change tests public opinion on global warming. A dive into the thick report issued this week surfaces new data that relates to one of the longest running and most frustrating debates in the work to stop climate change: “is hope or fear the more powerful emotion for mobilizing public action on global warming?”

TLDR: The answer is that neither hope nor fear is the key. Rather anger is the most powerful emotion for mobilizing Americans. And that’s good news because…

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