Fewer people are viewing climate change as a serious threat in the future, perhaps because climate activists and Democratic politicians keep telling everyone that the sky is falling.

According to a Monmouth poll, the share of people who think climate change is a “very serious” problem has dropped from 56% in 2021 to 46% in 2024. Contrary to Democratic talking points about how the youth want us to “save the planet” for their future, that drop is actually driven by the youngest demographic. The percentage of people between 18-34 years old that call the problem “very serious” dropped from 67% to 50%.

Support for government action on climate change, a vague idea that you would think should get broad, unthinking support, also dropped from 66% to 59%, driven again by a drop among young people, from 80% to 62%. This is all good to remember the next time liberal media position climate change as a premier concern for young voters when it actually isn’t even in the top 10.

This is what happens when climate change becomes the ultimate excuse for Democratic politicians, warning that rivers will turn to blood and locusts will swarm if you do not support their exact economic agenda. Perhaps people are simply catching on to Democratic politicians using climate change to excuse their incompetence in Hawaii, or how California Democrats cut climate programs they warned were so important when it came time to address the state’s budget deficit.

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Or maybe they simply see the hypocrisy of Democratic politicians zooming around on private jets while lecturing people about climate emissions, or when California’s green energy dream relies on dirty energy to keep the lights on. Or maybe the effects of years upon years of false predictions have finally begun to set in. Remember, according to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), we only have seven years before the world ends. Set your watches accordingly.

The Chicken Little routine of constantly prophesizing about our demise at the hands of carbon emissions and cracking down on nonfactors such as gas stoves or plastic straws while China’s emissions or rich Democrats’ private jets go ignored does obvious damage to the credibility of the activists making this a concern. The all-or-nothing apocalypse warnings are fantastical on their own, but when coupled with things such as the Green New Deal, which is nothing more than an economic bill masked by climate change, you can quickly see that all the warnings don’t really hold much weight.