Nearly half of all young voters won’t pay more than $10 a month to fight climate change, posing a potential problem for President Biden campaigning against the ‘existential threat’
Nearly half of all young voters are unwilling to pay more than $10 a month to fight climate change, despite Joe Biden claiming it is an “existential threat” and making it a centerpiece of his re-election campaign.
Less than half (45%) of the youngest group of voters aged 18 to 34 would be willing to spend $10 or less a month to fight climate change, according to a recent survey from CRC Research for 85 Fund, exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com.
And one in five (20%) in the same age range responded that they wouldn’t pay anything at all, according to the survey results.
The results were similar among voters ages 25 to 34, which could be a wake-up call for President Joe Biden, who continues to call climate change the most urgent threat facing America today.
The findings are surprising as younger voters view climate change as a top political issue and are expected to be a key motivator heading into the 2024 elections.
President Biden is putting climate change at the center of his re-election campaign, calling it the “last existential threat” to a small group of donors at a fundraiser in California last week.
“We have a crazy SOB like that guy Putin and others and we always have to worry about nuclear conflict, but the existential threat to humanity is the climate,” he said.
President Joe Biden called climate change the “last existential threat” facing the US last week
A new poll from CRC Research shows that most voters don’t want to spend more than $120 of their own money on climate change every year
President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act provided massive funding for electric vehicle charging stations across the country
The Biden administration has worked from day one to position itself as a champion of climate initiatives — which generally appeals to younger voters.
But the CRC Research survey shows that while younger voters may be passionate about the issue, they don’t want to spend their own money to solve the problem.
‘Despite claims that they are leading the way on climate change, it turns out that young people are actually just sheep in wolf’s clothing. They’re demanding ‘climate action,’ but demanding someone else pay for it,” said Steve Milloy, a lawyer who briefly worked at Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency.
‘They conceal their hypocrisy by pretending to be ‘climate activists’. Their refusal to put their money where their mouth is only underlines how unserious they are as citizens and voters,” he told DailyMail.com
This is also evident from research by CRC Research 26 percent of voters between the ages of 25 and 35 would not be willing to pay anything to fight climate change.
But the number increases when older voters are taken into account.
Looking across ages, 42 percent said they would pay nothing to fight climate change, while 18 percent said they would spend up to $10 a month.
But only seven percent of the 1,600 total respondents in the online survey would be willing to spend more than $100 a month to fight climate change.
“With 60% of Americans unwilling to spend more than $0 to $10 per month to reduce the impact of climate change, these results should serve as a wake-up call,” said American Energy CEO Institute Jason Isaac in a statement to DailyMail. com.
“The American people are sending a clear message: They don’t want to foot the bill for Biden’s crazy and costly climate policies.”
On his first day in office, President Biden rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement after former President Trump left the deal.
A week later, Biden also established the first-ever National Climate Task Force.
Additionally, one of Biden’s major policy achievements, the Inflation Reduction Act, approved nearly half a trillion dollars for climate and healthcare initiatives.
Yet climate activists say he is not doing enough.
On February 12, more than two dozen climate protesters were arrested outside the Biden campaign headquarters in Delaware.
On his first day in office, President Biden rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement after former President Trump left the deal
The group’s leaders demanded that the president declare a climate emergency and threatened not to vote for him in November if he did not comply.
Nationally, 73 percent of Americans believe climate change policies should reflect Biden’s pledge to cut greenhouse gases in half by 2030, a December report found CNN investigation.
Another questionnaire Research from the Center for Climate Change Communication found that 52 percent of voters want President Biden to do “more” or “much more” to address the global warning.
That poll also found that 56 percent of voters believe global warming should be a “high” or “very high” priority for the president and Congress.