Australia the least concerned about climate change

climae change concern by country

 

We remain the most sensible country on earth although one would wish it were even better. The article doesn’t actually say it in the title – Pew: Americans the least concerned about climate change – but that is only because they are describing the chart at the start of the story. But then there is also this sentence in the text:

In a global survey of 40 nations about how concerned people are about climate change, America scored 8.78 on a scale from three to 12, where 12 is the most concerned. The U.S. was tied with the United Kingdom and only Poland, Israel and Australia scored lower, just by a hair.

By a hair or not, we are the lowest. You can go to the survey at the link and put in your own response to compare your views with the standard. Not that the lower end is all that low. If you complete the survey and then look at the results across the world, it still says that in Australia 43% of the population think climate change is a serious problem. Still, it is now more than half who do not and the trends are in the right direction.

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