A new study shows the increasing global awareness of climate change as a security and welfare risk. Also, Cyber-attacks, terrorism, and Trump prepare the people.
in the World, a majority of people see climate change as the greatest threat to security and global prosperity. This is a well published survey conducted by the independent, non-partisan Pew Research center in Washington, was interviewed last spring, more than 27,000 people in 26 countries. In addition to climate change, was named in half of the countries as the biggest threat, people around the world is also Worried about Islamist terrorist groups, such as the so-called IS and, increasingly, Cyber attacks and the influence of the United States.
Two-thirds of all respondents worldwide, climate change in 2018, as the primary threat. Five years ago, this value is still at 56 percent. In Germany, almost three-quarters of the respondents agreed. Elsewhere, the awareness is growing: the climate trends are of concern, for example, today is 30 percent more French than in 2013. Even in the United States, whose President, Donald Trump of the global’s most prominent critics on the state of climate research, see 59 percent of all respondents in the changing climate to be a “major” risk.
