Is the U.S. Government Doing Too Much or Too Little to Address Climate Change? (April 2021)
category | Total |
---|---|
Too much | 30% |
About enough | 16% |
Too little | 43% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 11% |
Category | Democrat | Independent | Republican |
---|---|---|---|
Too much | 2% | 21% | 59% |
About enough | 11% | 10% | 21% |
Too little | 79% | 44% | 11% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 8% | 25% | 8% |
Category | Lean Democrat | Not very strong Democrat | Strong Democrat |
---|---|---|---|
Too much | 1% | 5% | 2% |
About enough | 12% | 12% | 11% |
Too little | 80% | 77% | 79% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 6% | 7% | 8% |
Category | Lean Republican | Not very strong Republican | Strong Republican |
---|---|---|---|
Too much | 66% | 32% | 64% |
About enough | 14% | 36% | 20% |
Too little | 14% | 18% | 8% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 6% | 14% | 8% |
Category | Liberals | Moderates | Conservatives |
---|---|---|---|
Too much | 3% | 9% | 59% |
About enough | 8% | 18% | 19% |
Too little | 81% | 52% | 12% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 7% | 20% | 9% |
Category | Lean liberal | Somewhat liberal | Extremely liberal |
---|---|---|---|
Too much | 3% | 0% | 8% |
About enough | 9% | 10% | 5% |
Too little | 77% | 84% | 80% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 11% | 5% | 7% |
Category | Lean conservative | Somewhat conservative | Extremely conservative |
---|---|---|---|
Too much | 34% | 58% | 71% |
About enough | 19% | 24% | 14% |
Too little | 32% | 9% | 8% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 15% | 8% | 7% |
Category | White | Black | Hispanic |
---|---|---|---|
Too much | 39% | 10% | 17% |
About enough | 14% | 16% | 20% |
Too little | 38% | 54% | 49% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 8% | 20% | 13% |
Category | Male | Female |
---|---|---|
Too much | 37% | 25% |
About enough | 17% | 15% |
Too little | 39% | 46% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 7% | 15% |
Category | Urban | Suburban | Rural |
---|---|---|---|
Too much | 18% | 32% | 42% |
About enough | 16% | 16% | 14% |
Too little | 53% | 41% | 33% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 12% | 10% | 11% |
Category | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-64 | 65+ |
---|---|---|---|---|
Too much | 17% | 23% | 36% | 41% |
About enough | 13% | 17% | 18% | 14% |
Too little | 60% | 47% | 34% | 39% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 10% | 14% | 12% | 6% |
Category | No HS | High school graduate | Some college | 2-year | 4-year | Post-grad |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Too much | 34% | 29% | 27% | 26% | 32% | 39% |
About enough | 23% | 15% | 19% | 16% | 16% | 11% |
Too little | 28% | 36% | 43% | 46% | 46% | 48% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 15% | 20% | 11% | 12% | 6% | 2% |
Category | Extremely important | Somewhat important | Not very important | Not at all important |
---|---|---|---|---|
Too much | 42% | 29% | 21% | 13% |
About enough | 20% | 16% | 13% | 8% |
Too little | 26% | 41% | 56% | 72% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 12% | 14% | 10% | 7% |
Category | The Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally, word for word. | The Bible is the word of God but not everything in it should be taken literally, word for word. | The Bible is a book written by men and is not the word of God. | Don't know. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Too much | 45% | 36% | 14% | 12% |
About enough | 18% | 20% | 7% | 17% |
Too little | 26% | 34% | 74% | 41% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 11% | 11% | 5% | 30% |