Essay by Eric Worrall
– According to the Institute for Economics and Peace, global climate concern fell 1.5% to 48%, between 2019 and 2021.
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Between 2019 and the end of 2021, the world’s population is less concerned about climate change, falling 1.5% to 48%. This can be partly explained by COVID-19 and concerns related to more immediate issues, such as health and livelihoods.
The three countries with the most worrying declines were Singapore, Namibia and Zambia, with declines of 24, 21 and 18 percent, respectively.
Citizens of the world’s biggest polluters, China and Russia, became less concerned about climate change, recording a dramatic 3% drop each.
China is one of the countries least concerned about the effects of climate change over the next 20 years with only 20.1%. India, the world’s third-biggest polluter, scored a poor 38.8%.
Six of the world’s nine regions reported less concern, with South Asia, North America and Europe the only areas improving.
The regions with the highest levels of ecological threat, on average, the least concern about climate change, with only 27.4% of MENA respondents and 39.1% of South Asians considering climate change as a very serious threat.
Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia rank war, terrorism, crime and violence as bigger concerns than climate change.
55.9% of Europeans and 55.7% of North Americans consider climate change a very serious threat.
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Read more: https://www.visionofhumanity.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/ETR-2022-Web.pdf
This poll is clearly a blow to green globalists. All those billions of dollars have been spent on climate alarm propaganda since 2019, and all they have to show for all that money and effort is mitigating interest.
My guess is that the drop in concern is more of a measure of the deteriorating global economic outlook than a significant shift in confidence in the artificial climate crisis. People who encounter real problems tend to pay less attention to imaginary problems like climate change.
What is disappointing is that 55% of Americans and Europeans still believe. On the other hand, this means that despite rising energy prices, falling gas prices, and supermarket shortages, most Americans and Europeans still enjoy being able to worry about issues other than meals. Where does their next meal come from.
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