Comment Re:Fucked both ways (Score 1) 460
If they don't believe the science, then by the very definition they are not scientifically literate.
That's a tautology, then. It's strictly true that, if you define "the scientifically literate world" as "places that [believe] climate change science", then all of the scientifically literate world believes* climate change science.
It seems you are confusing "deciding which steps to take to counter the issue" and "deny the issue exists while keeping on making it worse".
I'm not looking at all at how any particular state is taking steps (or not) to address climate change. That's highly variable and also is very sensitive to what you count as "taking steps". But I'm not concerned with that.
I was looking only at to what extent the population of a nation agrees with some of the most basic scientific facts about climate change.
By that definition, large chunks of the developed world, the US included, sits around 50%. There's another big cluster around 60-65%.