Visiting IBES Professor Robert Brulle noted that surveys showing high levels of public concern about nature tend not to compare the environment with other issues, like the economy, health care and national security.
"[Trump is] trying to breed a resentment, which speaks to people’s sense of powerlessness, about how elites are running our lives, making us drive these crappy cars and stopping us from buying an incandescent lightbulb," Visiting IBES Professor Robert Brulle commented.