Young voters overwhelmingly say they would support President Biden over former President Trump in a hypothetical head-to-head match-up if the 2024 presidential election were held today, according to a poll released Wednesday.
In the Economist/YouGov poll — conducted via web-based interviews Dec. 16-18 — more than half (53 percent) of registered voters under 30 said they would support Biden, and less than a quarter (24 percent) said they would support Trump.
Another 10 percent said they would support another candidate, 4 percent said they were not sure, and 9 percent said they wouldn’t vote.
It’s hard to tell what our trajectory is. It’s clear we’re going to see the effects of climate change and that we have to deal with it, we can’t just ignore it. What isn’t clear to me though is the severity. Are journalists sensationalizing it as the end of the world? Or are officials at climate groups like the IPCC downplaying the severity? Should we be talking like it’s an existential threat to humanity, so drastic action is taken?
I don’t know. And I say that as an engineer at a green energy company. I’m trained to look through the bullshit and I have an interest in this field. If I’m unable to determine what’s what, I can only imagine how much worse it is for people who care about this but may not have the technical background on the details.
It’s certainly too late to stop it entirely. We need to take measures to mitigate and weather through its effects. And regardless if it’s an existential threat or not to us still, we should be acting now. It would be fantastic if we could get an annual climate bill that judges the situation each year and makes adjustments to course correct us to whatever our goal needs to be.