Polling shows that US voters favor climate bills – yet assume fellow Americans don’t | Adrienne Matei

Part of the key to collective action may be to overcome the false social reality' that makes us assume no one else cares about the climate

America is polarized, but a new study has revealed one issue on which the nation is surprisingly united: mitigating climate change.

Yet Americans themselves underestimate the US population's concern for the state of the climate and support for major climate mitigation policies - by a whopping 80-90%, according to researchers from Boston College, Princeton University and Indiana University Bloomington.

Adrienne Matei is a freelance journalist