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FiveThirtyEight Politics

A Majority Of Americans Think Climate Change Should Be A Priority

FiveThirtyEight Politics

ABC News

Politics, News

4.620.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The crew looks at how the Johnson & Johnson vaccine pause shaped public opinion of that vaccine and willingness to be vaccinated more broadly. They also take stock of how Americans are thinking about climate change and government initiatives to stem carbon emissions, after President Biden announced a goal of cutting U.S. emissions to half their 2005 levels by 2030. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

When was the first Earth Day? It was like 91 or something.

0:03.2

No, no, it doesn't.

0:04.2

It's 70s, man. The 70s.

0:05.7

Oh, yeah. Come on.

0:06.8

Give me your Nelson.

0:07.7

Maybe the first Earth Day that I went to.

0:09.7

Oh, yeah.

0:10.8

What does it mean to go to Earth Day?

0:13.4

I don't know. We sat around and...

0:14.9

I don't know.

0:15.7

Smoke joints? Was that where that was going?

0:25.2

Hello and welcome to the 538 Politics Podcast.

0:28.0

I'm Galen Druke.

0:29.2

Today, we have a science-focused episode for you all.

0:32.7

We're going to be talking about the FDA and CDC's

0:35.4

pause of administration of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine

0:38.6

that pause ended on Friday.

0:40.6

We're also going to talk about President Biden's initiatives

0:44.4

on the climate.

0:45.7

He said he will try to reduce US carbon emissions to half of its 2005 levels

0:50.7

by 2030, making that kind of push used to be politically toxic.

0:55.2

But is it still?

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