What Went Down On Night 3 Of The DNC

Note: Environmentalism in the U.S. used to be a fairly bipartisan issue. The EPA, founded in 1970, was actually a product of the Nixon administration. But somewhere around 1990, everything changed.

This is another reminder that U.S. is only nation where public opinion about climate change is strongly polarized by ideology.

What’s fascinating about the issue of climate change is that it was once not partisan. In 1990, Gallup’s polling on the issue found no difference between Democrats and Republicans when it came to worry about climate change, but now there’s a huge split.