Donald Trump should be more worried about more about rising sea levels than Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.
According to the Pew Research Center, 37 percent of eligible American voters in 2020 will be Millennials or Gen Z , and a national poll of 18- to 29-year-olds by the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School found that the president's approval rating on climate change was just 24 percent, the lowest of all issues covered.
Which means that the Democratic party should be talking about the climate crisis a whole lot more. While the impeachment inquiry certainly matters, I'm not sure it's moved everyday Americans much: There should have been a collective gasp when the president's former top Russia adviser, Fiona Hill, called his dealings with Ukraine"a domestic political errand.
And young Americans in particular seem less than riveted by the inquiry—though 60 percent of Gen Z and Millennials said in an NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll that they supported the Senate voting to remove President Trump from office, only 16 percent said they'd been following the news about the House's impeachment inquiry"very closely," by far the lowest among all generations.
Yet impeachment still dominates the headlines, while students have to stage elaborate stunts to bring attention to the climate catastrophes unfolding around the world. It's no wonder many young people adore Sen. Bernie Sanders. Climate was the focus of just one question in the most recent Democratic primary debate , but Sanders still managed to bring climate change up practically the second he started speaking, well before moderators got on the subject.
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