Report · Jun 13, 2024
Climate Change in the American Mind: Politics & Policy, Spring 2024
By Anthony Leiserowitz, Edward Maibach, Seth Rosenthal, John Kotcher, Emily Goddard, Jennifer Carman, Matthew Ballew, Marija Verner, Teresa Myers, Jennifer Marlon, Sanguk Lee, Matthew Goldberg, Nicholas Badullovich and Kathryn Thier
Filed under: Policy & Politics
6. Who Should Take Action to Address Global Warming?
6.1. Majorities of registered voters want corporations and industry, citizens, and government to do more to address global warming.
About seven in ten registered voters say corporations and industry should do either “much more” or “more” to address global warming (69% of registered voters, including 95% of liberal Democrats, 80% of moderate/conservative Democrats, 62% of liberal/moderate Republicans, and 31% of conservative Republicans).
Half or more registered voters, including majorities of both liberal and moderate/conservative Democrats and about half of liberal/moderate Republicans, say the Republican Party (62%), the U.S. Congress (62%), citizens themselves (61%), and the Democratic Party (56%) should do more. About half or more registered voters, including majorities of both liberal and moderate/conservative Democrats, say their local government officials (56%), their governor (54%), President Biden (51%), and the media (51%) should do more. About half (49%) think they themselves should do more to address global warming.
About half of liberal/moderate Republicans (48%) say their party (the Republican Party) should do more to address global warming, while only 19% of conservative Republicans say so. Majorities of both liberal Democrats (85%) and moderate/conservative Democrats (65%) say their party (the Democratic Party) should do more.
6.2. Across the political spectrum, few registered voters think the U.S. government is responding well to global warming.
Few registered voters think the U.S. government is responding well to the issue of global warming (15%). This is true across the political spectrum: Only 20% of liberal Democrats, 18% of moderate/conservative Democrats, 13% of liberal/moderate Republicans, and 10% of conservative Republicans agree.
