Essay by Eric Worrall
Much ado and handwringing – According to the Institute for Economics and Peace, global climate concern dropped 1.5% to 48%, between 2019 and 2021.
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Between 2019 and the end of 2021 the world’s population became less concerned about climate change, dropping by 1.5 per cent, to 48 per cent. This may be partially explained by COVID-19 and concerns regarding more immediate issues, such as health and livelihoods.
The three countries with the biggest falls in concern were Singapore, Namibia and Zambia, with falls of 24, 21 and 18 per cent respectively.
Citizens of the world’s biggest polluters, China and Russia, became less concerned about climate change, recording a substantial drop of three per cent each.
China is one of the countries least concerned about the impact of climate change over the next 20 years at just 20.1 per cent. India, the world’s third largest polluter, scores poorly at 38.8 per cent.
Six of the nine regions of the world recorded less concern, with the South Asia, North America and Europe regions being the only ones to improve.
Regions exposed to the highest level of ecological threat, are on average the least concerned with climate change, with only 27.4 per cent of respondents in MENA and 39.1 per cent of South Asians perceiving climate change as a very serious threat.
Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia ranked war, terrorism, crime and violence as greater concerns than climate change.
55.9 per cent of Europeans and 55.7 per cent of North Americans perceived climate change as 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 an obviously a blow for green globalists. All those billions of dollars spent on alarmist climate propaganda since 2019, and all they have to show for all that money and effort is a slight fall in interest.
My guess is the drop in concern is more a measure of the worsening global economic outlook than a significant change in the level of belief in the fake climate crisis. People experiencing real problems tend to pay less attention to fantasy problems like climate change.
It is disappointing that 55% of Americans and Europeans still believe. On the other hand, this means that despite energy price rises, gasoline price shocks and supermarket shortages, most Americans and Europeans still enjoy the luxury of being able to worry about issues other than where their next meal is coming from.
And at that, polling tends to be almost ridiculous. When people are asked how much they are willing to personally pay to deal with the “threat”, the amounts are negligible.
Seems the White House is selling an “inflation is a Myth” hoodie.
$398 plus $60 shipping.
Sorry, today it’s $498 plus $70 shipping.
A bargain,! get one while stocks last at those prices…. 🙂
There is no threat.
Does that include Mexicans? Or are they not in NA?
If you survey the U.S., then you are including almost all Mexicans. At the current rate of illegal border crossings, there aren’t enough left in Mexico to affect the poll results.
The Democrat Party are considering a new film that appeals to the Green Luvies or trans naturalists (sic) 🙂 it is called The ALAMO and stands for;
‘America Let All Mexicans Over’
It’s a documentary…..
Amazing that it is still so high, rather than it dropped a bit. Testament to 40 years of IPCC ‘science’ fear mongering.
It is a well entrenched social movement. I doubt it will ever go away but it can be rendered relatively harmless. That is the goal. The IPCC just taps the movement by drawing on the committed scientific community. It neither creates nor leads it. No one leads it.
As long as the mainstream media won’t print/broadcast/telecast anything that’s not approved by their benefactors such as leftist governments and environmental groups throwing money at them, there will still be too many Europeans and North Americans falling for the sky-is-falling propaganda. Whether they’ll actually do anything like dramatically altering their lifestyles to supposedly fight climate change is another story and a good thing too because such lack of action will keep the Greens out of power and the Green hucksters from forcing too many of their products on the populace.
YUP! I know so many lefties and to me it is obvious how they feel compelled to pay lip service to CC…sure…but to change their behavior and habits (give up luxuries to reduce C02) oh well no, they use so little, you know, the cuts need to be made elsewhere, and the government should supply it all to the little people free. And they believe if the green energy can be made big enough it will take off on its own with.
The discussion is likely to get very real in the USA come 2023. Between fuel, fertilizer and other farm chemicals, agricultural prices have to go through the roof just so farmers can come close to break even. Otherwise, there won’t be anything worth harvesting in the Fall, because they won’t be able to afford to plant.
But that is the plan: slowly impoverish the population through inflation. You will own nothing and they will be rich & happy.
True. Why further food and fuel inflation is baked into the Biden cake. And next year, also hybrid/GMO seed inflation because they use the same fuel and fertilizer, just the year before final planting. Impacts corn and soy, not rice and wheat. So will be further big downstream impacts on meat (beef, pork, poultry), dairy, eggs, and E10 gasoline. (double the price of corn, double the price of ethanol, raises e10 gasoline 20% (2*0.1=0.2=20%).
How much ethanol is there in E10?
(oh sorry, 10% of course)
How about E15?
Only 5%. 10% of it went to the Big Guy.
I noe have two diesel cars instead of petrol, because of the ‘E10’ nonsense. In Europe, diesel is still significantly cheaper than petrol.
Not any more. Same or higher.
They underestimate the good sides of traffic, overestimate the bad sides, utter ‘externalized costs’, and have an excuse to fund the big state with gas tax. Diesel got expensive as a side effect of chosen policies.
But the important part is legitimizing funding the big state that employs them, gives perks and removes the necessity to produce something that’s useful as in ‘I’m ready to pay $$$ for it’.
Diesel was more expensive in Britain this summer
Certainly more expensive here in western canada this year
Not in Britain. I passed two garages today where petrol was £1.65 a ltr and diesel was £1.95 a ltr.
The other thing that has happened since 2019 is the covid-19 pandemic. This has taught an awful lot of folk that you can’t believe what your so-called leaders tell you, no matter how often and how stridently they repeat it. I’m surprised that the drop in climate concern is so small – almost within the range of error of that type of poll.
If you’ve lost your job because the pandemic restrictions forced your employer to close, are you going to worry about climate change?
Unlike many registered charities the organization of the Institute for Economics and Peace (Sydney New York Mexico City and Oxford) is opaque, none of the board or trustees are listed on its website but can be found on the Australian Charities and Not-For-Profits Commission website.
I’m prepared to bet far less than 3.6 billion of the 7.7 billion have heard of ‘climate change’ let alone care.
I’m wrong there is a page of directors.
And I see that long tenured UN bludger Gareth (“Biggles”) Evans has got in on the action here.
What a coincidence!
Chris, I counted 41 people on that page. No wonder it’s a “Not For Profit’.
By the time they pay everyone there’s no money left. And if they get more money, they pay everybody more so there’s still no money left.
“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one”. Mackay 1841.
Looks like he was right.
In France all major political parties agree on the threat that is CO2 and only disagree on the measures (pro nuclear, anti against nuclear pro wind, pro electrochemical car, pro H2 car, etc.).
Reading posts on social networks, it’s different: people don’t agree. There is no consensus.
(The French twittosphere is authentic and not curated like the US massively artificial twittosphere.)
They’re trying to pretend the Yellow Vests never happened IMO.
Yes. Political parties are afraid of being *punished* for non-alarmist talk. This been on from late nineties, when media agencies and think tanks took over political parties and tell them how to frame things. There’s no way to speak for nuclear because it’s effective. The only way is to say it’s low-emission.
The media agencies represent a certain class of people. That’s why ‘fly-overs’, ‘deplorables’, noble wilds, ‘enrichment’, rich b**** sustainability.
The political parties do not ask the people what’s important. They ask a commercial propagandist of the globalist party line.
This explains Canada, the US Democrats, most Europe, Oz, New Zealand.
Hate to say, but this looks like the way to self destroy democracies and let autocracies win.
55.9 per cent of Europeans and 55.7 per cent of North Americans perceived climate change as a very serious threat
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My phone didn’t ring for those polls, I would have given the pollsters an earful.
The way they poll guarantees high numbers. You could poll a way people put their concerns in order, using $$$ and €€£ so you learn how big those concerns really are.
They do not poll to find out. They poll to affect what they poll.
I’m not expecting the number “of North Americans who perceive climate
change as a very serious threat” to fall a lot as Rep. McCarthy, the
House “Stupid Party” minority leader, says he won’t impeach Brandon
or his officials when they take control of the House. McCarthy’s still
playing by rules the “Evil Party” discarded long ago, & that’s why
the Stupid Party will keep losing. So the Evil Party’s disinformation
& censorship will continue & possibly grow!
The dumber the Stupid Party looks, the more I’d bet their stupid behavior
somehow maximizes what the pols & their largest supporters get versus
what would benefit their average supporter the most. The amount of
continuously repeated stupid actions are too great for the lack of
intelligence/gullibility itself to explain away.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2022/10/20/stupid-party-kevin-mccarthy-says-gop-wont-move-to-impeach-biden-or-administration-officials-n1638699
McCarthy’s statement reflects the Stupid Party’s lack of going
on offense to win as they seem to prefer “not losing too much”,
instead. They could’ve used Reagan’s “misery index” (inflation
rate + unemployment rate) as well as having a “Contract for
America” (Newt ’94) with REAL planks, not the ho-hum BeeEss
they came up with. With leadership like this, we’ll just keep
“not losing too much” until it’s too late to win.
BTW, both Paul Ryan & Jeb Bush just gave their support to
DeSantis so these Never-Trumpers (& party elites) can try to
get their people in his ’24 campaign & administration to “keep
him in check” (like Truss being undone by fellow Tories).
They’re slyer than foxes!
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/10/14/florida-governor-ron-desantis-wins-coveted-paul-ryan-endorsement-for-2024/
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/10/21/florida-governor-ron-desantis-wins-coveted-jeb-bush-endorsement-for-2024/
Eric says:
“…most Americans and Europeans still enjoy the luxury of being able to worry about issues other than where their next meal is coming from.”
This winter and next year will be difficult.
Next year, the people that didn’t freeze to death will be scrambling for food and then 2023’s winter will hit and the ones weakened by lack of food will be weakened more by freezing temps.
They will already be broke from trying to feed themselves, the food pantrys will be emptied, and there will be droves of people with nothing to lose. Not a good time to be a politician or someone with obvious assets.
No. Unless Russia starts a hot war against several countries. If Putin does that, we have WWIII and all odds are out. But I guarantee Russia will not win that war. The question is more like how well everybody speaks Chinese after that.
Guess twice if China *wants* Russia to attack Europe. Yes, of course. That would destroy both Russia and Europe, leaving China with world dominance.
Putin is a tool of China who restarted WWII using nuclear threat. And we blinked, in Europe. Democracies need a strong military compared to autocracies.
Meanwhile the leftists keep insisting that the only way to ensure peace is for western countries to disband their militaries, defund their police and disarm their citizens.
Interesting read, I think this explains a lot of the current behavior…see Porsche tantrum.
https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelshellenberger/p/the-quiet-desperation-of-woke-fanatics?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
‘The various media stunts appeared authentically grassroots but were, in fact, financed by a $1 million grant from a philanthropic group called Climate Emergency Fund, which is funded by their heirs to the Getty and Rockefeller oil fortunes, and founded in 2019.’
Why do we call these misanthropes filanthropes?
Why do we accept this organized criminal activity?
Because the political parties are hijacked by these people. Because our society’s basic structure, media, has been hijacked.
We should end funding the BBC, but we can’t, because it blackmails all political parties of significance.
We can’t win without a strong alt media, which also keeps Russian and Chinese propaganda away.
Still vastly too many people that have fallen for the propaganda. It is based on blind faith that what they are being told is true, in spite of no evidence whatsoever.
If you can’t question it, you can’t believe it.
It is always a dangerous precedent to blindly believe that which you are not allowed to question.
It is up to us that have taken the propaganda vaccine to induce the brainwashed to stop being afraid to ask questions.
Where can I get a T-Shirt like that?
You can easily get a Tshirt made with anything you want on it. I think Cafe Press is one of the sites.
”I spent a billion dollars on climate propaganda And all I got was this lousy shirt.”
Sort of reminds me of climate protesters…
They came here with a five dollar note, a dirty shirt, and changed neither.
Sorry girls but we’re not mining lithium cobalt or nickel but along with predominantly iron ore we are having a go at copper and fertiliser for the masses-
Mining – Hancock Prospecting PTY LTD
You’ll have to go mining elsewhere for your international jetsetting requirements-
Hancock Prospecting withdraws from $15m funding deal with Netball Australia after players revolt (msn.com) 1
Don’t mess with Gina girls-
Netball rocked by $15 million mining power play (msn.com)
About bloody time the productive sector told it plain and simple to the entertainment jocks.
Presumably these virtue signalling snowflakes wouldn’t mind feminine Albermarle’s logo on their uniforms-
America’s largest lithium mine ramps up production as the world moves to sustainable energy | Watch (msn.com)
There is only one question, who conducted the poll and what were the questions and answers offered. Polls are basically useless.