“Surprising results”: Germans are much more worried about the economy, peace and health than they are about “climate change”, a comprehensive series of surveys reveals.
Part 3 of the most recent German Klimaschau here looks at five recent surveys of some 2000 German private households conducted since 2012 by market research group FORSA. The surveys were commissioned by the Leibniz Institute for Economic Research.
The results were published in a paper authored by Manuel Frondel et al, May, 2021 in Zeitschrift für Energiewirtschaft (Journal for Energy Management). The title of the study in English: “Perception of Climate Change in Germany: A long-term survey of private households.”
The main purpose of course was probably to determine just how much concern and anxiety exist among the German population with regards to climate change. Are they now ready to relinquish their liberties and prosperity in exchange for the illusion of better weather?
One of the survey questions was: “There are many challenges that people worldwide are confronted with. Please indicate how important you personally view the following challenges.”
Respondents were able to rate the various challenges using a scale of 1 to 5
1 = not important at all
2 = somewhat unimportant
3 = moderately important
4 = rather important
5 = very important.
According to the Klimaschau, the results “were surprising.”
Climate change was rated by the 2000 households as being among the least of their worries. More important were issues concerning health, war and social equality. Over the 8-year period, worries over climate change barely changed, despite all the XR, FFF and Greta Thunberg publicity.
And with the current spiraling inflation, energy shortages and other supply chain woes, “climate change” likely has fallen even lower on the list of worries by German private households today, and is probably very near dead last.
When the persons surveyed were asked to rate the challenges with respect to how relevant they were to their families, “climate change” did indeed land dead last.
Therefore, it’s no surprise that the authors believe Germans may in fact not be open to paying more on climate change, especially in view that electricity prices in the country are the world’s highest.
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The surveys in the US have been consistent for decades.
Most people believe climate change is a problem. But few people consider it to be an important problem when part of a list of problems to vote on.
Even in an anonymous survey, where virtue signalling does not cost a penny, people are not even willing to CLAIM they would spend very much of their own money “fighting” climate change. The surveys gives people
the opportunity to virtue signal, yet they reject small tax hikes to “fight” climate change. That’s good news to this climate realist:
Support for climate change is a mile wide, but only an inch deep
(aka A kilometer wide and a centimeter deep)
I’d like to think people living with actual, global warming,for up to the past 47 years, might have noticed that it was harmless, if they noticed at all. Perhaps I’m expecting too much from people. They fear future global warming in spite of the fact that global warming has been pleasant for the past 47 years.
Here in Michigan USA we love global warming, and want a lot more.
Except the ski bums — still upset that last winter had less snow than any winter since I moved to Michigan in 1977.
I think most people “believe” climate change is a problem in a theoretical sense. That is, they constantly hear that it’s a problem, so they say, “Yes, it’s a problem.” But I don’t think most people spend much time thinking about it and they certainly don’t see the drastic doomsday consequences that are endlessly predicted. I think it’s at the bottom of the list of people’s worries because there’s nothing to worry about.
The change in the climate over people’s lifetimes has been so small that it is not felt (if you lived in the same place for a long time, you might notice — I’ve lived in the same home since 1987 — that helps to notice the milder winters).
The climate changes over many decades are dwarfed by the temperature change in an hour or two after sunrise every day.
The climate “problem” is moving in very slow motion, even if you assume there is a problem. How concerned can people be about an invisible very slow moving “problem”?
… For those of us who love global warming, it’s been too cold this year. Today is May 22, and it’s still not warm yet in Michigan USA. That’s a problem.
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