Massachusetts residents are concerned about the impacts of climate change, but fewer than half list it as a high priority; it trails behind worries about health care, jobs and the economy, education, taxes, and fuel costs:
) of 1,890 Massachusetts residents sponsored by the Barr Foundation and conducted by the MassINC Polling Group. The new survey suggests concern over climate change has declined since a similar poll in 2019 in which 54% of residents called climate change a high priority for state government. That figure now stands at 47%.
"That doesn't mean that it's not important and that people don't support action. In fact, when we asked about some policy-type questions in this survey we found pretty good support for them," said Richard Parr, research director at The MassINC Polling Group. But"people are weighing their concern about climate change, which is very real, with their concerns about a whole bunch of other issues as well.
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