When asked if humans are the primary drivers behind global warming, nine out of ten kids responded: “Duh!”
The first-ever national poll of children about climate change, the results stand in stark contrast to the nine out of ten Republican senators who in January voted against an amendment which acknowledged that the crisis is man-made.
“Nine out of ten kids across America know that catastrophic climate change is impacting the air they breathe, the food they eat and the future they will inherit. And they know this is a crisis we’re causing and can do something about it,” said Terra Lawson-Remer, campaign director at global advocacy group Avaaz, which conducted the survey along with Ipsos.
“On the other hand,” Lawson-Remer continued, nine out of ten Republican senators “are not only failing science class, they are failing our children.”
Hoping to teach their lawmakers a thing or two about planetary science, six teenagers are going to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to visit with a dozen climate-denying senators including Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and Rand Paul (R-Ky.).
“Scientists have noticed that this was a problem for a really long time, like, maybe 20 years ago? Longer than I’ve been alive,” 16-year-old Nadia Sheppard told the New Republic.
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