85% of American Youth Polled Worry About Climate Change, Want More Action From Government and Corporations [Video]

A “supermajority” — 85 percent — of young Americans polled feel distressed about human-caused climate change and, and similar percentages want stronger action from corporations and the government, according to a new study published in The Lancet Planetary Health.

In the survey — the largest of its kind — most of the 16,000 respondents aged 16 to 25, from every state in the country, said they were worried about the impact climate change was having on humans and the planet, reported the Chicago Tribune.

More than 60 percent of those surveyed said they felt powerlessness, anxiety, fear, sadness and anger due to the climate crisis, with high levels of concern regardless of political affiliation.

“One of the most striking findings of the survey was that this was across the political spectrum,” said lead author of the study Eric Lewandowski, an associate professor at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, as The Guardian …