Vast Majority of Urban ‘Elites’ Favor Strict Rationing to Fight Climate Change and Think Americans Have Too Much Freedom: Study

A new study shows that a staggering 77 percent of urban “elites”—defined as people with at least one post-graduate degree earning over $150,000 a year and living in high-population density areas—favor strict rationing of energy, gas, and meat to fight the supposed ills of climate change. The striking figure was revealed in a January study titled, “Them vs. U.S.,” prepared by the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, based on a survey conducted by Rasmussen in September 2023. “Climate change is clearly  an obsession of the very rich and highly educated,” the study’s authors wrote. The percentage of urban elites (as defined in the survey) who favor strict rationing of resources to combat climate change rises to a striking 90 percent among wealthy city-dwellers who attended America’s top universities....