Politics does not trust hinders climate action
December 04, 2019 09:10 Source: "China Social Sciences" December 4, 2019 Author:

A new study of our comprehensive foreign media report,Unbridisions on political leaders and political systems have caused many Europeans to not support fossil energy increases。

"Global Environmental Change" published by the Dutch Ais Weier Publishing Company November issue,published a paper "Political trust and climate change belief and support for fossil fuel tax : Survey evidence of 23 European countries ",Reveal why bet365 Play online games fossil fuel tax is not welcomed by Europeans。

Introduction to the text,Taxation of fossil fuel is one of the effective policy tools to reduce greenhouse gas emissions。But in actual implementation,The public usually holds objections to such policies。Researchers analyzed and studied the data collected by the European Social Social Survey in 2016 (in 2016。As a result, I found,78%of the respondents believe that human activities have triggered climate change and think this is dangerous,Only 33%of the respondents support taxes on fossil fuel。There Bet365 app download is no big gap in interviewees in different countries on whether there is a climate change,But they have to their national politicians、There is a big gap in the trust of political parties and other trust。The most supporting respondents who support high taxes on fossil fuels are not the strongest awareness of climate change、The most worried person,Instead of those who have the highest political trust in their country。Countries with a high degree of public political trust such as Sweden,It is believed that people who believe in climate change and their harmful Bet365 app download real existence more support the increase in fossil fuel; countries with lower public politics such as Poland and Spain,Even if people believe that climate change exists,It does not support tax increases to fossil fuel。

Ferbroser said,Compared to the simple negation of climate change,Now what is constitutes a bigger hindrance to slowing climate change actions is the public's distrust of politics。

(Wang Youran/Compilation)

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