So CUTE! Young Conservatives Try To Move The Needle On Global Warming Policy With GOP Elected Officals - Just ADORABLE!

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Feeling like she didn’t have a home in today’s Republican Party, Zakrzewski and a couple of like-minded young conservative environmentalists launched a podcast last year called Green Tea Party Radio in the hope of giving a voice to others with similar views. Zakrzewski, now 26, is part of a growing minority of young conservatives who are deeply concerned about the warming planet and want to see their concerns reflected in a GOP they feel has strayed from its conservationist roots.

Researchers say there is a widening generational divide among Republicans when it comes to their concerns about climate change and some of their views on energy policy. Since early 2021, when the Biden administration came into power, this trend has only gotten worse for the party, as support among Republicans in general for renewable-energy development has shrunk, while the support among younger conservatives specifically has grown, according to polling by Pew Research. “So in effect, what we’re seeing here is a bigger gap between younger and older Republicans in their views about the direction we should go on energy than even four years ago,” says Alec Tyson, an associate director of research at Pew Research.

Republicans aged 18 to 29 are 30 percentage points more likely to support more wind power and 26 percentage points more likely to favour more solar power than those 65 and older. When it comes to their views on climate, 79% of younger Republicans acknowledge that human activity contributes to climate change, whereas only 47% of elder GOP voters say the same.

Observers say the GOP would ignore these shifting dynamics at its own peril as millennials and Gen Zs become a voter block that can make or break an election. In November, when Americans will be asked to choose either former president Donald Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris, 40 million members of Gen Z will be eligible to vote, according to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement. In 2020, millennials surpassed baby boomers as the United States’ largest generation, with more than 70 million people. While Corporate Knights went to press before the election results were known, young voters could prove a decisive force.

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(Narrator: "But by the time the votes were counted, it was obvious that once again, young Republicans' concerns about global warming and environmental problems did not matter. Tune in four years from now for our next episode of "Green Adventures In The Kingdom Of Delusions!" )

https://www.corporateknights.com/issues/2024-11-education-and-youth-issue/can-young-republicans-wake-their-party-up-to-climate-change/