Thank God for Englishmen!
This Sceptred Isle reigns supreme in climate sanity. For now.
Well looky here. You’re not taking crazy pills. You’re actually in, to coin a phrase, the Climate Majority1. You think climate change is real? Well 86% of Brits agree with you. And if you think humans burning fossil fuels is the primary cause? And 75% of people here agree with you on that.
Those were just a couple of highlights from a survey of more than 10,000 people in the UK in a report today by the Yale Program for Climate Communication. And if you’re Keir Starmer or Rachel Reeves and thinking, hmmm I wonder if there’s a wildly popular political position that more than two thirds of the country, or even better >80%!, support, have a word with your colleagues Ed Miliband and Chris Stark.
According to the Yale data, 68% of people here believe climate should be a “very high” or “high” priority for the UK government.
And more than 80% support the use of renewable energy for electricity, fuel, and heating:
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