Saturday, 2 May 2026

HOW PUBLIC VIEWS ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE ARE CHANGING

According to an article on the BBC website, this is why climate change is not a vote winner: 

Concern about climate change "had taken second place to issues like cost of living, economy and also immigration" in recent years, the environment psychologist explained, citing a hypothesis known as the "finite pool of worry".

The share of the UK public who have said the country needed to reach net zero sooner than 2050 had nearly halved since 2021, according to a recent study by King's College London, Ipsos and the Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations, external.

The proportion of people who feel the target's not needed had risen from 9% to 26% over the same period.

The fact is that support for net zero is something that has been built on exaggeration and confusion between weather (short term) and climate (based on long term averages). People are starting to notice this, and the more it is pointed out the less people will worry. 

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