Pew 2025 Climate Threat Divide

Updated: 2025.08.19 6M ago 4 sources
Pew’s 2025 polling shows large partisan and age gaps in Americans calling climate change a 'major threat,' signaling uneven support for domestic decarbonization and international climate cooperation. Younger adults and Democrats rate climate risk far higher than older adults and Republicans. — Risk-perception polarization conditions votes, spending priorities, and treaty commitments, guiding how coalitions message and legislate on climate.

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4. Global climate change as a threat
Janakee Chavda 2025.08.19 100% relevant
The article reports Americans’ climate-threat views differ sharply by party and age.
3. Terrorism as a threat
Janakee Chavda 2025.08.19 78% relevant
Like Pew's climate polling, this piece reports sizable partisan and age gaps in labeling terrorism a 'major threat,' extending the same threat-perception polarization pattern to the security domain.
1. False information online as a threat
Janakee Chavda 2025.08.19 80% relevant
This short read reports the same partisan and age-split pattern in threat salience—here for 'false information online'—as the Pew 2025 climate threat findings, extending the threat-salience polarization framework to misinformation and signaling how these splits will condition appetite for online speech regulation.
International Opinion on Global Threats
Janakee Chavda 2025.08.19 90% relevant
The article’s core point—partisan and age splits in perceived global threats—includes climate risk salience, which the Pew 2025 Climate Threat Divide tracks as a driver of uneven backing for decarbonization and international climate cooperation.
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