How different generations think about climate change

Even with scientific evidence closing the case on climate change, a divide on the issue continues along political lines. But that divide grows smaller in younger segments of the population.

Research indicates that the gap on this issue between millennial Republicans and Democrats has diminished and that there’s less political polarization on the topic. Meanwhile, discussion about climate change — and in some cases, the absence of such a discussion — is an issue on voters’ minds as the 2020 election approaches.

MPR News host Kerri Miller talks with a researcher and a conservative political executive about climate change communication in our communities and on both sides of the political aisle.

Guests:

• Danielle Butcher is chief operating officer of the American Conservation Coalition.

• Matthew Ballew is a postdoctoral associate at the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, where he specializes in social psychology and survey research.