Report · Jan 11, 2024
Climate Change in the American Mind: Beliefs & Attitudes, Fall 2023
By Anthony Leiserowitz, Edward Maibach, Seth Rosenthal, John Kotcher, Emily Goddard, Jennifer Carman, Matthew Ballew, Marija Verner, Jennifer Marlon, Sanguk Lee, Teresa Myers, Matthew Goldberg, Nicholas Badullovich and Kathryn Thier
Filed under: Beliefs & Attitudes and Climate Impacts
5. Fatalism
5.1. Few Americans think it is too late to do anything about global warming.
Six in ten Americans (60%) either “strongly” (33%) or “somewhat” (27%) disagree with the statement: “it’s already too late to do anything about global warming.” By contrast, relatively few Americans (13%) either “strongly” (4%) or “somewhat” (9%) agree with this statement.
5.2. About half of Americans disagree with the statement “the actions of a single individual won’t make any difference in global warming.”
About half of Americans (53%) either “strongly” (18%) or “somewhat” (35%) disagree with the statement “the actions of a single individual won’t make any difference in global warming” (refer to data tables, p. 80), while 47% of Americans either “strongly” (18%) or “somewhat” (29%) agree that individual actions won’t make a difference.
