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applegrove

(118,021 posts)
Fri May 25, 2018, 05:35 PM May 2018

Racial resentment may be fueling climate denial, study finds

NEXUS MEDIA at Think Progress

https://thinkprogress.org/racial-resentment-may-be-fueling-climate-denial-study-finds-25884ab53fe1/

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Separately, researchers have studied how racial resentment among white Americans has worsened economic anxiety and driven opposition to welfare, Medicaid, and other government initiatives. (As it happens, white Americans are the largest beneficiaries of these programs.)

Writing in The Washington Post, political scientists Adam Enders and Jamil Scott explained that, while racial resentment has remained stable over time, “More and more, white Americans use their racial attitudes to help them decide their positions on political questions such as whom to vote for or what stance to take on important issues including welfare and health care.” They added, “Barack Obama’s rise to the presidency further strengthened the relationship between racial resentment and political attitudes.”

Benegal’s study links these two fields of research by asking if, and to what extent, racial resentment has fueled climate change denial. He began by examining the views of black and white Americans on climate change before and during Obama’s presidency, comparing Pew surveys taken between 2006 and 2008 with surveys taken between 2009 and 2014. Obama, who named climate change a top priority on the campaign trail, tried and failed to pass cap and trade legislation in 2009.

Before the 2008 election, Benegal said, there was no significant difference between white and black Americans on climate change, when controlling for partisanship, ideology, education, church attendance, and employment. In the years after Obama took office, the views of black Americans stayed roughly the same. White Americans, however, were 18 percent less likely to see climate change as a very serious problem.

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Racial resentment may be fueling climate denial, study finds (Original Post) applegrove May 2018 OP
I bet the republican elites have population control around the world on their minds when they applegrove May 2018 #1
I'd suspect it's more strongly correlated to Fox News viewership. meadowlander May 2018 #2
Republican elites. applegrove May 2018 #3
Yikes PoorMonger May 2018 #4
No. roamer65 May 2018 #5
The nice thing is a lot of these ilk are dying at a pretty good clip now. roamer65 May 2018 #6

applegrove

(118,021 posts)
1. I bet the republican elites have population control around the world on their minds when they
Fri May 25, 2018, 05:36 PM
May 2018

teach the base to like climate change. Even though it is going to hurt the their own country with more infections and diseases.

meadowlander

(4,358 posts)
2. I'd suspect it's more strongly correlated to Fox News viewership.
Fri May 25, 2018, 05:37 PM
May 2018

The same people being brainwashed to hate Obama are being brainwashed to think climate change doesn't exist.

roamer65

(36,739 posts)
6. The nice thing is a lot of these ilk are dying at a pretty good clip now.
Fri May 25, 2018, 07:07 PM
May 2018

They are older. Hopefully the pace quickens. Good riddance to bad garbage.

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