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Forget what you think you know about American attitudes to climate action

Tom Chivers
Tom Chivers
clock 13 December 2018 •
Forget what you think you know about American attitudes to climate action

Tom Chivers reflects on new polling that suggests the average American consumer is concerned about climate change, whatever President Trump says to the contrary - and corporate leaders are responding

Americans don't care about the climate. That, at least, is the sort of background assumption that most of us operate on; sure, a few West Coast hippies and lycra-clad New York cyclists do, but for the...

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