3/3 Climate Change Is of Growing Personal Concern to U.S. Hispanics, Poll Finds

Alfreda Padilla, a migrant farmer from Texas, who is now an insurance lawyer, says he is very concerned about global warming. He says that this affects poor people harder, since they are typically more reliant on weather. In a survey conducted by the Times last month, it was found that Hispanics are more likely than whites to view global warming as a problem that would personally affect them. It also said that they would be more likely to support policies and taxes that would lower the amount of greenhouse gas pollution. This poll could have major affects on the 2016 election, with candidates trying to win hispanics' votes. 54 percent of hispanics rated global warming as extremely important to them, 37 percent of whites voted it important. 67 percent of hispanics said that they would be negatively affected personally if nothing was done to reduce it, and half of whites voted this.


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/10/us/politics/climate-change-is-of-growing-personal-concern-to-us-hispanics-poll-finds.html?ref=politics