Climate change matters to more and more people – and could be a deciding factor in the 2024 election
- Written by Matt Burgess, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
Young people demonstrate ahead of a climate summit in New York in September 2023. Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty ImagesIf you ask American voters what their top issues are, most will point to kitchen-table issues like the economy, inflation, crime, health care or education.
Fewer than 5% of respondents in 2023 and 2024 Gallup surveys said...

