SPECIAL | In the US, how are different generations viewing climate change?
The Excerpt
USA TODAY
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🗓️ 16 October 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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In the 1980s, Republicans and Democrats alike were concerned about global warming. Today, how worried you are about the environment is more closely aligned with your political leanings. Though the climate affects everyone, younger generations are making major life decisions based on what is to come. USA TODAY reporters looked at a variety of issues and topics, ranging from climate change to retirement planning, through the lens of generations old, aging, and young. USA TODAY National Correspondent Elizabeth Weise joins The Excerpt to talk about the role of age in determining how we feel about climate change in this third of four specials exploring how different generations are handling life’s pressure points.
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| 0:00.0 | Wunderry Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's The Excerpt, ad free right now. |
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| 0:08.0 | Hello and welcome to the Excerpt. I'm Dana Taylor. Today is Wednesday October 16th, 2024 and this is a special episode of the |
| 0:18.7 | excerpt. Climate change isn't coming, it's here, but how we view it and how we choose to shape |
| 0:30.2 | our lives around it varies widely based on age. |
| 0:34.0 | USA Today reporters looked at a variety of issues and topics including things like retirement |
| 0:39.2 | planning and choices we make regarding sex through the lens of generations old aging and young. |
| 0:46.2 | Here to discuss the role of age in determining what climate change means to us is USA Today |
| 0:51.8 | National Correspondent Elizabeth Weese. Beth thanks for being on the excerpt. |
| 0:56.0 | As always it's a pleasure. The fight against climate change is often associated with |
| 1:01.6 | younger generations, |
| 1:02.7 | well-known climate activists, |
| 1:04.4 | quite a Thunberg now 21 years old, |
| 1:07.1 | began her school strike for climate change |
| 1:09.3 | when she was just 15. |
| 1:11.5 | Are younger generations leading the push for solutions to climate change or did you |
| 1:17.1 | find that it's now widely an issue for all ages? |
| 1:21.5 | It's an issue for all ages and that was actually the central issue or the |
| 1:25.0 | central question we set out to answer because intuitively you kind of think well |
| 1:29.8 | it's going to be people who are you know in their 20s or teens who are thinking this is my life forever and they are |
| 1:36.3 | perhaps going to be more riled up about it. It turns out that's actually not true. People are equally concerned at most age groups that there are |
| 1:45.8 | variations which we can get into. But that was that was surprising because I mean |
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