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How Religion Intersects With Americans’ Views on the Environment
Nearly half of Americans say that God gave humans duty to care for the Earth AND the right to use it
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- How Religion Intersects With Americans’ Views on the Environment
- Highly religious Americans overwhelmingly say God gave humans a duty to protect and care for the Earth, but far fewer see climate change as a serious problem
- Religiously affiliated Americans commonly link their religious beliefs to the environment
- Highly religious Americans are less concerned about climate change, less convinced human activity is causing warmer temperatures
- Climate change gets relatively little attention in U.S. religious congregations
- One-in-ten U.S. adults say it is morally wrong to drive a car with low gas mileage
- Three-in-ten evangelicals say climate change is not a serious problem because God is in control of the climate
- Majority of evangelicals concerned environmental regulations will lead to loss of individual freedoms
- Within each major religious group, Republicans are much more likely than Democrats to say climate change is not a serious problem
- The connection among partisanship, religion and views about climate change, all else equal
- The composition of U.S. adults, by religious commitment and concern about climate change
- Highly religious Americans who are concerned about climate change skew Democratic
- Nearly four-in-ten U.S. adults believe ‘we are living in the end times’
- Those who believe humanity is living in the ‘end times’ are somewhat less likely to view climate change as a serious problem
- Americans who think about future generations view climate change as a very serious problem
- Religious ‘nones’ among most likely to say when we make decisions as a country, we should consider things previous generations did not
- Nearly half of Americans say that God gave humans duty to care for the Earth AND the right to use it
- Americans who are less concerned about climate change are more likely to hold dominionist views
- Nearly half of Americans do several things in their daily lives to help protect the environment
- Three-in-ten religious ‘nones’ did at least one civic activity last year to address climate change
- Four-in-ten regular religious attenders say their congregation has a group that helps protect the environment