Swiss students and do students do larger Worry about the consequences of climate change than their colleagues in other European cities. You expect more than average that the politicians, in their country, against the impending climate catastrophe company. And you want to make your support for those who, politically, scientifically or organizationally to the subject.
in Total, were interviewed against 9000 students and students in nine European countries – Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The response rate was 20 percent, which is statistically significant.
The Ticino, Marco Giugni, who teaches in Geneva, as a political science Professor and his students, the survey in Lausanne and Geneva, has carried out, draws from the survey of the Swiss sample several conclusions. So in the case of the Swiss protesters in the two cities on lake Geneva, you can hardly be on existing organisations or their family in the theme have to integrate (less than 7 percent of respondents).
Angry and frustrated
it is also Interesting that the 16-year-old Swedish schoolgirl and activist Greta Thunberg has inspired you less than the youth in other countries. “The young Swiss are more active and more interested in of the Problem of climate change than elsewhere,” says Marco Giugni.
In most of the percentage values of the answers of the respondents agree, in Europe, more or less. Most of the students and pupils belong to the middle class and have a good to very good education. The feeling tends to be gloomy, anxious, frustrated and angry. You trust the scientists significantly more than the bourgeois majorities in the parliaments.
correction of the present
How quickly this distrust can impact the cantonal elections of the last two weeks suggest that: In Zurich, Basel-land and Lucerne Green, and green made liberal amazing profits, while the SVP lost heavily, the of alleged climate change, and to make the theme of their campaign issues.
Today is Friday, you will move back through the streets in many European cities, to fight for a correction of the present, so that your Generation has a future. The detailed answers to the questionnaire suggest that there are no vassals left and green parties are on the March, although the respondents tend to belong to the Left. That they don’t trust the established parties a little more, makes more, the policy to this new, decisive electorate must take care of.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 04.04.2019, at 22:19
