Religious Americans Value Environmental Stewardship, Though Views on the Urgency of Climate Change are Deeply Polarized by Party

At The Washington Post, Yonat Shimron reported that Americans’ views on the urgency of climate change have remained about the same over the past decade. PRRI’s survey finds that roughly one-third of Generation Z and millennials see climate change as a crisis — compared with around two in ten members of Generation X, baby boomers, and the Silent Generation.

PRRI CEO Melissa Deckman wrote in The Hill about what the survey’s findings mean for the potential for religion to bridge the partisan divide on climate change. While the report finds noticeable differences in support for policies to combat climate change across different religious traditions, Deckman notes that the majority of religious Americans support what some religious leaders refer to as “creation care.” This includes 80% of white evangelical Protestants and 84% of Latter-day Saints — two of the country’s largest Republican constituencies.

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