Evidence is mounting that Asian Americans are increasingly green– as in the environment, reports the Sightline Daily.
How green? According to Sightline, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders identify more strongly as environmentalists than the rest of the U.S. population.
As evidence of this, Sightline sites one of the few multi-lingual surveys of Asian Americans ever done (see AsAmNews look into the lack of polling data on Asian Americans)
In 2008 the National Asian American Surveys by Karthick Ramakrishnan, UC Riverside, and Taeku Lee, UC Berkeley, found that 71 percent of Asian Americans consider themselves environmentalists. That’s about 30 points higher than the general population.
The following year a survey by the California League of Conservation Voters Education Fund found that 83 percent of Asian Americans in the state describe themselves as environmentalists. That compares to 52 percent of California voters.
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In 2012 , according to the MPO Research Group, just 15.4 percent of Asian Americans expressed skepticism that global warming is real. That’s lower than Caucasians and Hispanics and second to African Americans, a community in which just 6.1 percent were skeptical about global warming.
These collection of surveys done over a period of four years is further proof of the benefits of breaking out polling data to include Asian Americans.
