Can you guess what that stipulation is? It’s the same one that always crops up when asked
Many Europeans want climate action – but less so if it changes their lifestyle, shows poll
Many Europeans are alarmed by the climate crisis and would willingly take personal steps and back government policies to help combat it, a survey suggests – but the more a measure would change their lifestyle, the less they support it.
The seven-country YouGov survey tested backing for state-level climate action, such as banning single-use plastics and scrapping fossil-fuel cars, and individual initiatives including buying only secondhand clothes and giving up meat and dairy products.
The responses, from the UK, France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Spain and Italy, suggested many people were happy with measures that would not greatly affect the way they lead their lives, but bigger steps that may be necessary were unpopular.
They’re super happy for little changes
Measures entailing no great lifestyle sacrifice were popular, with between 45% (Germany) and 72% (Spain) backing government tree-planting programmes and 60% (Spain) and 77% (UK) saying they would grow more plants themselves or were doing so already.
Similarly, there was fairly solid support – from 28% in Germany to 43% in Italy – for the idea of limiting meat and dairy intake to two or three meals a week; between 24% (in the UK) and 48% (in Italy) would back government legislation to that effect.
Unsurprisingly, government subsidies to make homes more energy efficient were wildly popular, with support ranging from 86% in Spain to 67% in Germany, while covering the costs personally was rather less so (19% in Germany to 40% in Spain).
They’re good with the government giving them money, failing to realize they’re the ones who will paying for it. The funny thing is, are those same people yammering about, say, meat, doing this themselves now? Only walk, cycle, or take public transit? It’s easy to commit to Someone Else planting more trees and a frequent flyer levy when you do not fly that much, not so much when it personally impacts your own life and money.
That last category is laughable given current birthrates in Europe.
Proposed air ticket tax by the Netherlands is 8$
Few in USA noticed the 2% carbon surcharge in international flights.
The difference in birthrates between the Europeans 1.5 and American 1.6 is hardly significant
In rural areas children are free labor, in urban areas children are like expensive pets
It is very common that among Climate activists, the most popular measures they support are actions that will be taken by other people, taxes that will be paid by other people, and hardships that will fall on other people.
Mr Teach once again disparages the commoners:
Global warming is a global problem (duh, it’s in the name). User fees (taxes – e.g., gas taxes, airfare taxes, luxury taxes) make good sense. It’s no surprise that people want to solve a problem but with little or no impact on their own lives. That is exactly why it takes coordinated actions that involves our elected officials.
We know, we know… MAGAts make the excuses that 1) it’s not warming 2) if it is it’s not CO2 3) if it is CO2 there’s nothing to be done and 4) if there is something to be done it will ruin the world’s economies. P.S. – “It’s a commie scam to transfer money from rich white nations to poor black nations!”
Like so many MAGAworld positions, it’s based on myths.
Rimjob: Global warming is a global problem.
Problem? How so? Show your work, chubby.
#PedoPervProblemRimjob
Bwaha! Lolgf
It’s a “problem”, though no one can come up with any proof of these alleged problems. Meanwhile, the earth continues to green from the extra CO in the atmosphere
In the meantime…
“While the international hotheads are screeching about impending doom, levelheaded observers point to data that clearly show a pause in warming, which has been mild and as likely natural as it is human-caused, has now reached eight years and nine months.
There has been no rise in global temperatures from July 2015 to March 2023.
This fact-based claim draws on satellite readings from the University of Alabama in Huntsville that measure temperatures in the troposphere, a much more accurate method of keeping score than the shoddy records produced by ground-based weather stations.”
https://climatechangedispatch.com/satellite-data-shows-no-global-warming-for-eight-years-nine-months/
In the meantime…
“While the international hotheads are screeching about impending doom, levelheaded observers point to data that clearly show a pause in warming, which has been mild and as likely natural as it is human-caused, has now reached eight years and nine months.
There has been no rise in global temperatures from July 2015 to March 2023.
This fact-based claim draws on satellite readings from the University of Alabama in Huntsville that measure temperatures in the troposphere, a much more accurate method of keeping score than the shoddy records produced by ground-based weather stations.”
https://climatechangedispatch.com/satellite-data-shows-no-global-warming-for-eight-years-nine-months/
Carbon boy-why do we need a “carbon surcharge”? Especially because it really doesn’t do anything?