Amid environmental anxiety Democrats should be the national green team

The annual national environmental Gallup Poll, conducted last month and yearly since 2001, demonstrates that public anxiety about the quality of the environment has reached historic levels. Meanwhile, to celebrate Earth Day, President Trump, the failed father of fossil fuels, fiddles while the world burns.

Trump once called climate change a “Chinese hoax,” but the public takes the crisis seriously. Only one out of three people believe the quality of the environment is in decent shape. The 35 percent score is down 8 points from last year and matched the all-time lowest rating since the polling firm first asked the question in 2001.

Back in 2015 before Dirty Don became president, fully half (50 percent) of the public had faith in the quality of the environment.

A deep dive into the survey reveals even more disturbing news. Two out of three Americans think the situation is getting even worse. The survey indicates that the biggest worry about environmental problems is water quality. More than half of the public worries about the impact of pollution on our clean water supply. There is significantly more worry about the quality of water than there was about global climate change. So environmental activists should focus on the micro level instead of the macro problem to get the ball rolling in the right direction.

But on Earth Day hope is on the........

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