{"id":162777,"date":"2023-04-24T16:23:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T21:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/current-climate-americans-want-the-u-s-at-net-zero-by-2050"},"modified":"2023-04-24T16:23:02","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T21:23:02","slug":"current-climate-americans-want-the-u-s-at-net-zero-by-2050","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/current-climate-americans-want-the-u-s-at-net-zero-by-2050","title":{"rendered":"Current Climate: Americans Want The U.S. At Net Zero By 2050"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/current-climate-americans-want-the-u-s-at-net-zero-by-20502.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today is Earth Day.<\/p>\n<p>That said, Americans don\u2019t fully trust the reliability of renewable sources and 67% of the population favors a mix of renewables and fossil fuels, with only about 31% in favor of completely phasing out fossil fuels altogether.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<em>This week\u2019s <\/em><strong><em>Current Climate<\/em><\/strong><em>, which every Saturday brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability. <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/newsletter\/currentclimate\/#33c6469f6b46\" target=\"_self\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/newsletter\/currentclimate\/#33c6469f6b46\" aria-label=\"Sign up to get it in your inbox every week.\"><em>Sign up to get it in your inbox every week.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today is Earth Day, when people take time out to reflect on preserving the environment. And according to polling, at least, Americans are committed to improving it. According to a new poll from Pew Research looking at attitudes towards the environment, 69% of the U.S. population favors steps towards a goal of the country being carbon neutral by the year 2050. The same percentage says the country should prioritize developing renewable energy sources to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Earth Day. That said, Americans don\u2019t fully trust the reliability of renewable sources and 67% of the population favors a mix of renewables and fossil fuels, with only about 31% in favor of completely phasing out fossil fuels altogether. This week\u2019s Current Climate, which every Saturday brings you the latest news about the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,493,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-climatology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}