Author: Anvi Bhate

By Anvi Bhate Currently, around 60 percent of Americans view climate change as a major threat to the prosperity of the United States and two thirds of the country’s adults observe the federal government is not doing enough to reduce the effects of global climate change (Pew, 2020). The majority of Americans believe the government should try different approaches to reducing climate change such as planting more trees, placing tougher restrictions on power plant carbon emissions, and establishing tougher fuel efficiency standards for cars (Pew, 2020). However, even as more Americans begin to believe in climate change and its alarming need to be addressed, two thirds of the population refuse to quit fossil fuels (Forbes, 2021). While not all Americans are completely convinced with the li...