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Survey: Religion and race shape views on cause of climate change
Russell Contreras and Andrew Freedman. Axios
Religion and race shape views on whether climate change is caused by human activities. Less than a third of white evangelicals saying it's driven by people, according to a new survey. Three-fourths of Hispanic Catholics and all religiously unaffiliated Americans (76%) believe climate change is caused by human activity, a survey released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute found. But less than half of Latter-day Saints believe climate change is caused by human activity (48%), and just three in 10 white evangelical Protestants (31%) believe so. A slim majority of white Catholics (56%) and white mainline/non-evangelical Protestants (54%) say climate change is human-caused. Meanwhile, most Americans (61%) believe climate change is caused mainly by human activity such as burning fossil fuels. 19% of white evangelical Protestants say there is no evidence that climate change is happening — the largest percentage of any religious group in the survey.