Posted on 01/27/2021 4:44:11 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Despite the pandemic, almost two thirds of people around the world now view climate change as a global emergency.
That's the key finding from the largest opinion poll yet conducted on tackling global warming.
More than a million people in 50 countries took part in the survey, with almost half the participants aged between 14 and 18.
The poll, called the "People's Climate Vote", has been organised by the United Nations Development Programme in conjunction with Oxford University.
The organisers distributed poll questions through adverts in mobile gaming apps across 50 countries, between October and December last year.
Around 1.22 million people of all genders, ages, and educational backgrounds took part, but with significant numbers of younger people.
Some 550,000 people aged 14-18 took part.
Across all countries, 64% of participants saw climate change as an emergency, requiring urgent responses from countries. The margin of error was +/- 2%.
Newly installed US President Joe Biden can take some comfort that 65% of those in the US taking part now view climate change as an emergency.
Overall, younger people were more likely to agree with the view that rising temperatures were an emergency, with nearly 70% in favour.
For people over the age of 60, this dropped to 58%.
One of the key differences that emerged in the data was the level of education.
"When it comes to demographics, something that we saw very clearly was that there is a high correlation between a level of education and belief in the climate emergency. The more educated you are, the more likely you are to believe that there is a climate emergency," said Cassie Flynn.
"And this is really, really powerful, because it doesn't matter where you're from, it doesn't matter your age, education really, really is important."
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> Despite the pandemic, almost two thirds of people around the world now view climate change as a global emergency. <
Well, of course they do. And that photo of Goebbels is particularly relevant here.
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”
“... Some 550,000 people aged 14-18 took part. ...”
People aged 14-18? This group is only interested in the next smartphone app and what the Kardashians are doing.
Indoctrinated children
If you want to get rid of global warming, get rid of the Sun. I would contribute to build a giant space ship to take them to the sun to figure it out.
Useless idiots.
Once I stopped laughing, I almost felt embarrassed for the BBC.
550,000 14-18 year olds? I guess the source was the Weekly Reader, if that’s still a thing.
I'm surprised that there was not more opinions fearing 'globull warming'.
Kids 14-18 are probably the most ignorant group of people {excluding a demonRAT convention} on the planet.
Climate change believers are delusional and its advocates are deliberately encouraging delusional thinking.
It’s a buzzword, like “diversity” or “systemic racism,” a signal to the herd, to run this way or that way.
To be replaced, someday, by a simple electrical shock.
A cold wind blows when opinion polls equal science. Who is the Minister of Propaganda?
Anyone who’s spent any time in China recently (as I have) knows that all you have to do is kill off 75% of their population and the problem is solved.
2/3 of the world think the sun is our enemy? How SCIENTIFICALLY IGNORANT is that?
They’ll be voting next time.
It snowed here a few weeks ago. Ok, it was really just a light dusting that melted almost immediately. The previous light dusting was 20 years ago. Twice in my lifetime. There’s your globull warming, you useless kiddies.
We had fifteen years of THE COMING ICE AGE propaganda, 1970-1985. Nothing happened.
And now we have had thirty three years of GLO-BULL Warming propaganda.
Have the seas risen? No. Are the Summers actually hotter? No. Do we still get snow and cold weather? Yes.
So in the last fifty one years of scares, things still go along as usual. Nothing has changed.
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