{"id":8187,"date":"2022-12-07T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T15:00:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-04-23T23:55:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T03:55:23","slug":"younger-evangelicals-in-the-u-s-are-more-concerned-than-their-elders-about-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2022\/12\/07\/younger-evangelicals-in-the-u-s-are-more-concerned-than-their-elders-about-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Younger evangelicals in the U.S. are more concerned than their elders about climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Young people around the world have been at the forefront of climate change protests<\/a>, and in the United States, adults under 40 are considerably more likely than their elders to express concern about the issue and attribute it to human activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This age pattern also exists within major Christian traditions in the U.S., including evangelical Protestants, who are among the groups most skeptical about climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall, two-thirds of U.S. adults younger than 40 say global climate change is an extremely or very serious problem, compared with roughly half of those ages 40 and older (52%), according to a recent Pew Research Center survey<\/a>. Furthermore, 64% of adults under 40 say the Earth is getting warmer mostly because of human activity, such as burning fossil fuels, while fewer than half of older Americans (47%) take that position.<\/p>\n\n\n

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