The 89% Climate Solution -- A majority of people know climate change is a serious threat to our health
Ashwani Vasishth
The 89% Climate Solution
A majority of people know climate change is a serious threat to our health. Time to act and vote like it
Need-to-Know Fact: The vast majority of the human population—80 to 89%—want governments to do more about climate change.
That’s based on numerous peer-reviewed scientific studies.
However, most people are unaware of this because it hasn’t been widely reported in the media. In other words, the global climate majority does not realize it is the majority by far.
Loud, shouty people on digital forums give the impression that climate is a minor, even fringe concern, despite the overwhelming evidence of harm. Persistent and widespread disinformation is being pushed by vested interests in the fossil fuel industry and their extremist supporters to deny and delay efforts to reduce CO2 emissions.
They also want to discourage people from insisting that the majority of people want more climate action by governments and industry.
And we want action now, not 2050!
Need-to-Know:
75% of Americans understand climate change harms health,
and the health risk is increasing
In a brand new survey of Americans, 75% of registered voters want federal agencies to maintain or increase their efforts to protect people from the health harms of global warming.
The survey was conducted in December 2024—after the presidential election, but before the Trump administration took office. It is the latest Climate Change in the American Mind survey by George Mason University.
Many Americans understand that climate change harms health, and an increasing percentage believe climate-related health harms will become more common in their community over the next 10 years, the survey found.
Americans who want federal agencies to increase their efforts to protect people outnumber those who want to see fewer efforts by the government by more than 3 to 1.
Need-to-Know:
Only a tiny minority of Americans want to see less climate
action
Some other results of the survey:
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A majority of registered voters (55%) said federal agencies should do more than they are currently doing to protect people from the health harms of global warming.
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20% of registered voters said agencies should continue to do the same amount, and only 15% said they should decrease their efforts.
Taken together, 75% of registered voters want federal agencies to maintain or increase their efforts to protect people from the health harms of global warming. (See NtK Harmful Air Pollution is Getting Worse: Pollutants from Road Transportation and Wildfires on the Rise.)
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Ashwani
Vasishth vasi...@ramapo.edu (323) 206-1858 (Cell Phone)
http://phobos.ramapo.edu/~vasishth
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Professor of Sustainability
http://ramapo.edu/ramapo-green
http://ramapo.edu/sustainability
You can ALWAYS set up an Appointment with me, without negotiation, seven days a week,
at: https://calendly.com/vasishth/half-hour-webex-meeting
Ramapo College of New Jersey
505 Ramapo Valley Road, SSHS, Mahwah, NJ 07430
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I respectfully acknowledge that Ramapo College is located on the ancestral and traditional Indigenous territory of the Ramapough Lunaape Nation.
Richard Rosen
Ashwani Vasishth
Of course, Richard. But ask WHY.
Why is there no "legislation?"
Because the popular (uninformed) narrative is, "People don't care about climate change impacts...."
But that is a manipulated narrative. Media capture by the
"establishment"--see "The
Most Powerful People You’ve Never Heard Of," or The
World for Sale: Money, Power, and the Traders Who Barter the
Earth's Resource.
Also...no magic bullets. There are no "solutions" to wicked problems. Just many things that can make a difference, taken together.
I'd never argue "voting will solve things." Just as education will not solve things.
We all know "necessary, but insufficient." But, still, we look for that one thing, that will makew the problem go away.
We're not going to engineer our was out of where we are.
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Ashwani
Vasishth vasi...@ramapo.edu (323) 206-1858 (Cell Phone)
http://phobos.ramapo.edu/~vasishth
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Professor of Sustainability
http://ramapo.edu/ramapo-green
http://ramapo.edu/sustainability
You can ALWAYS set up an Appointment with me, without negotiation, seven days a week,
at: https://calendly.com/vasishth/half-hour-webex-meeting
Ramapo College of New Jersey
505 Ramapo Valley Road, SSHS, Mahwah, NJ 07430
--------------------------------------------------------
I respectfully acknowledge that Ramapo College is located on the ancestral and traditional Indigenous territory of the Ramapough Lunaape Nation.