Sounds like people are most willing to spend less…during a global financial & cost of living crisis
I’m not sure how much of these results are due to climate considerations
Amounts to most people being prepared to do things differently, but not actually stop doing things, or to put another way, ‘the same as now only green please’.
I for one will sit on my arse and wait for someone to fix it!
Based on what I see, they are willing to do very little. As always they want the government to pay for things for them so they can carry on with their lives
I’ll have to save this link for the next time a post about “Just Stop Oil” comes up and everyone chimes in to say how deeply the UK public already cares about the climate. Not enough to give up meat or flying, or ride a bike it would seem.
I think most people would be willing to do more if they did not feel helpless. I think vested interests do actually push the narrative that it’s too late and/or that nothing we do will affect the outcome. Most people swallow that narrative and try to forget the crisis is happening or worse actively pretend it’s not happening.
If people accepted that we are in a crisis and believed that as a society we are and will act to solve that crisis I would expect people to be willing to do much more than they are at this point.
Right now the problems are really vested interests obstructing action and a political system that is not fit for the situation we find ourselves in.
A lot of people like to talk the talk, but really change very little. The amount of people who say they’re cutting down on meat and dairy but really make zero change is exceptionally high.
> widespread willingness to limit food to that which is produced in the UK,
Pretty sure the 50% who agreed to this doesn’t actually have any idea what is produced in the U.K. and what their diets would look like in Feb-Apr every year.
The other element is that this isn’t actually good for the environment unless you also change your diet to foods that are produced efficiently, on industrial scales in the U.K.. lots of peas and rhubarb, no hot house lettuce or tomatoes.
I study environmental science.
Most people are worried about climate change but no amount of recycling or cutting out meat is going to offset oil exploration for example. Scientists are saying that the changes need to come from top down, so governments need to legistate and companies need to follow that.
Personal responsibility doesnt work and its designed to push the blame onto the people that isn’t causing the problems so the problems can continue to happen.
Errr no.
If its between climate change and being able to pay my mortgage, I know which is more important to me, thanks.
The only thing that will cause a change is price.
People will spend more on insulation when heating is expensive. People will spend less on meat when food is expensive.
The only way to drive climate change is to have the price more accurately reflect the cost.
If public transport was subsidised more people would use it.
If cars and houses where more accurately taxes to reflect their cost people would love closer to cities and use public transport more.
If everyone is paying the same for the cost then no one feels like their individual contribution is worthless.
That’s the only way to do anything about climate change is taxes and subsidies. (Potentially need to give people cash for stuff also but I’m not against that).
You can’t expect people to be willing to do too much when our leaders blatantly take the pish by whizzing around in private jets, driving in huge motorcades and eating prime cuts of beef and other meats… All at a climate change conference.
I am refusing to fly my private jet until we are net carbon zero.
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Sounds like people are most willing to spend less…during a global financial & cost of living crisis
I’m not sure how much of these results are due to climate considerations
Amounts to most people being prepared to do things differently, but not actually stop doing things, or to put another way, ‘the same as now only green please’.
I for one will sit on my arse and wait for someone to fix it!
Based on what I see, they are willing to do very little. As always they want the government to pay for things for them so they can carry on with their lives
I’ll have to save this link for the next time a post about “Just Stop Oil” comes up and everyone chimes in to say how deeply the UK public already cares about the climate. Not enough to give up meat or flying, or ride a bike it would seem.
I think most people would be willing to do more if they did not feel helpless. I think vested interests do actually push the narrative that it’s too late and/or that nothing we do will affect the outcome. Most people swallow that narrative and try to forget the crisis is happening or worse actively pretend it’s not happening.
If people accepted that we are in a crisis and believed that as a society we are and will act to solve that crisis I would expect people to be willing to do much more than they are at this point.
Right now the problems are really vested interests obstructing action and a political system that is not fit for the situation we find ourselves in.
A lot of people like to talk the talk, but really change very little. The amount of people who say they’re cutting down on meat and dairy but really make zero change is exceptionally high.
> widespread willingness to limit food to that which is produced in the UK,
Pretty sure the 50% who agreed to this doesn’t actually have any idea what is produced in the U.K. and what their diets would look like in Feb-Apr every year.
The other element is that this isn’t actually good for the environment unless you also change your diet to foods that are produced efficiently, on industrial scales in the U.K.. lots of peas and rhubarb, no hot house lettuce or tomatoes.
I study environmental science.
Most people are worried about climate change but no amount of recycling or cutting out meat is going to offset oil exploration for example. Scientists are saying that the changes need to come from top down, so governments need to legistate and companies need to follow that.
Personal responsibility doesnt work and its designed to push the blame onto the people that isn’t causing the problems so the problems can continue to happen.
Errr no.
If its between climate change and being able to pay my mortgage, I know which is more important to me, thanks.
The only thing that will cause a change is price.
People will spend more on insulation when heating is expensive. People will spend less on meat when food is expensive.
The only way to drive climate change is to have the price more accurately reflect the cost.
If public transport was subsidised more people would use it.
If cars and houses where more accurately taxes to reflect their cost people would love closer to cities and use public transport more.
If everyone is paying the same for the cost then no one feels like their individual contribution is worthless.
That’s the only way to do anything about climate change is taxes and subsidies. (Potentially need to give people cash for stuff also but I’m not against that).
You can’t expect people to be willing to do too much when our leaders blatantly take the pish by whizzing around in private jets, driving in huge motorcades and eating prime cuts of beef and other meats… All at a climate change conference.
I am refusing to fly my private jet until we are net carbon zero.