Exclusive: poll of 10 countries including US, UK, France and Germany finds people prioritising measures that are already habits

interesting and not exactly encouraging survey and the guardian is going with the whole "look at these selfish and irresponsible plebs", but the big thing i take from it is mostly that climate messaging has been so terrible that nobody knows what the fuck to do, everyone is sceptical of the personal responsibility bullshit, and the most highly-rated thing is that people just want some fucking leadership on this (interesting that there were very few questions on what government/industry should be doing, i wonder why)

  • RandyLahey [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    “Citizens are undeniably concerned by the state of the planet, but these findings raise doubts regarding their level of commitment to preserving it,” the study said. “Rather than translating into a greater willingness to change their habits, citizens’ concerns are particularly focused on their negative assessment of governments’ efforts.”

    while there surely is some selfishness involved and lol at this articles framing of it, i just think most people are not convinced that their individual actions will actually do shit, and for most of these things theyve listed theres fuckall that individuals can actually do about them anyway, and people are pissed at governments for not doing any of the systemic shit that will actually make a real difference