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The majority of Americans (61%) believe climate change is caused mostly by human activity.

Source: The Faith Factor in Climate Change: How Religion Impacts American Attitudes on Climate and Environmental Policy

About three in ten Jewish Americans (32%) and Hispanic Catholics (31%) view climate change as a crisis.

Source: The Faith Factor in Climate Change: How Religion Impacts American Attitudes on Climate and Environmental Policy

35% of Americans agree that the severity of recent natural disasters is evidence that we are in what the Bible calls “the end of times”.

Source: The Faith Factor in Climate Change: How Religion Impacts American Attitudes on Climate and Environmental Policy

Eight in ten Americans (80%) say preventing human harm and suffering is an important reason to protect the environment.

Source: The Faith Factor in Climate Change: How Religion Impacts American Attitudes on Climate and Environmental Policy

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Climate Change, Religion & Culture
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The Faith Factor in Climate Change: How Religion Impacts American Attitudes on Climate and Environmental Policy

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A Majority of Americans Believe the Earth is Getting Warmer

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The Partisan Gap on Climate Change Is Growing

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Most Believe Science in Conflict with Religion—Except Their Own Religious Beliefs

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Republicans Divided on Limiting Power Plant Emissions

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Catholics Twice as Likely to Agree with Pope Francis on Climate Change Than Disagree, But Many Still Unfamiliar with Views

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The vast majority of Americans support racial diversity and religious pluralism in the United States ⬇️

🌎 8 in 10 Americans say they would prefer the U.S. to be made up of people from all over the world, while just 15% say they would prefer the U.S. to be primarily made up of people of western European heritage. Most Democrats (91%), independents (83%), and Republicans (73%) would prefer a racially diverse country.

🙏 Additionally, 7 in 10 Americans say they would prefer the U.S. to be made up of people belonging to a wide variety of religions, compared with 25% of Americans who say they would prefer a nation primarily made up of people who follow the Christian faith. Democrats (86%) are more likely than independents (75%) and Republicans (56%) to say they would prefer the U.S. to be a religiously pluralistic nation.

This data comes from PRRI’s latest survey of more than 5,000 Americans on their views 100 days into the Trump administration. Read more at PRRI.org.

In an op-ed for The Hill, PRRI Director of Researc

In an op-ed for The Hill, PRRI Director of Research Diana Orcés, Ph.D., reflects on her journey as an immigrant to the U.S. and contrasts it with today’s increasingly harsh attitudes toward migrants.

Drawing on PRRI research, Orcés notes that while anti-immigrant sentiment persists, only 35% of Americans say that the federal government should place immigrants who are in the country illegally in internment camps until they can be deported.

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