While a majority of Americans agree that climate change is a serious problem, a new survey found that those who identify as highly religious are less likely to be as concerned about the issue.
found that those who identify as highly religious are less likely to be as concerned about the issue.
Those surveyed who said"they pray each day, regularly attend religious services and consider religion very important in their lives," were much less likely to be concerned about rising temperatures, in comparison to non-religious Americans, or Americans of non-Christian religions, Pew found. And only 8% of those who identified as highly religious said they were"very concerned" about climate change.
There are a few reasons the different groups have developed varying opinions, Pew found — the main one being politics. Evangelical Protestants surveyed largely identified as Republicans, Pew said, and were"less likely than the overall public to say the Earth's warming is mostly caused by human activity."
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