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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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