Episode 109
[FOCUS] Myth about Climate Change: Most People Don't Believe in Climate Change
Episode Summary: This episode is an excerpt from a past episode on Myths about climate change (we discuss Myth 5: most people don’t believe in Climate change!)
Jenn and Imma talked about surveys that show that more people, particularly from younger groups, are concerned about climate change than the myth implies.
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Featuring Carbon Almanac Contributors Jenn Swanson and Inma Lopez
From Langley in British Columbia, Canada, Jenn is a Minister, Coach, Writer and Community Connector, helping people help themselves.
Imma is from Cádiz in the South of Spain, living in Aberdeen, Scotland. Imma is a sommelier, a poet, a podcaster, a mother, a slow food advocate, and an animist activist.
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Transcript
Hi, I'm Jen.
Speaker:Hi, I'm Emma.
Speaker:And today we're gonna talk about a myth about climate change mm-hmm and this myth
Speaker:says that most people don't believe in it.
Speaker:Most people don't believe in climate change.
Speaker:That's the myth.
Speaker:okay.
Speaker:interesting.
Speaker:I think I agree with the statement.
Speaker:Although, I believe there is something going on that is changing the climate.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And there was a, there was a survey of public opinion that was done,
Speaker:not that long ago by, um, it was processed by the university of Oxford
Speaker:and it was done by the United nations development program and they, they
Speaker:did a survey that was the, one of the largest surveys that's ever been done.
Speaker:And, uh, it covered 50 countries with over half of the world's population.
Speaker:Like it was a massive survey and it included over half a million people
Speaker:who are under the age of 18, which is really important when we're talking
Speaker:about climate change, because they're the people who will be living into it.
Speaker:And, uh, yes, the discovery was that 64% of people believed.
Speaker:Climate change is a global emergency.
Speaker:So that's a huge number.
Speaker:64% 6, 4 6, yeah, four.
Speaker:So, so the idea that most people don't believe in climate change is not true.
Speaker:is not true.
Speaker:Just a 46% 64.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:64.
Speaker:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker:Exactly.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:You're fast at math.
Speaker:it's too early for me.
Speaker:uh, and, and, and do you, do you know, the year that, that, uh, survey was made
Speaker:the, the year that the survey was made?
Speaker:I think it came out in, uh, 20, 21.
Speaker:Oh last year.
Speaker:Yeah, last year.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:So it's really recent, very recent.
Speaker:Well, that is that's really, really, for me, it kind of informs that,
Speaker:uh, people is waking up and you know why people might not believe.
Speaker:In climate change.
Speaker:Um, uh, I was looking at some information on why people would not believe in climate
Speaker:change and, and things, words came up like information deficit and things like
Speaker:it's easier to deny than to face the, um, Reality the reality, the pain, right?
Speaker:Because it's it's um, and there's also a lot of false information out there created
Speaker:by people who have vested interests in, in, uh, not talking about climate change
Speaker:, which is, which is very interesting because who could be interested in
Speaker:not talking about climate change, would climate change affect all of us?
Speaker:Mm-hmm so it's people who.
Speaker:Right now are still believing that they can do whatever they want.
Speaker:Still.
Speaker:I don't really get that point of view of imagine oil companies or.
Speaker:people who doesn't want this to be true.
Speaker:mm-hmm, because they have a lot to lose maybe, or they think they have a
Speaker:lot, a lot to lose, but still, even if you are part of a CEO of one of these
Speaker:companies, you are in the world, you are not in planet Mars, you better?
Speaker:You realize soon that sooner than, than later, that that is
Speaker:something that is affecting all of.
Speaker:I sometimes think that people feel unempowered, you know, you can feel so
Speaker:overwhelmed by all of the news and the doom and gloom and everything that's
Speaker:coming at you that, um, it, it sometimes feels safer and easier to say things
Speaker:like, well, I, I can't do anything about it anyway, so I'm not gonna worry about.
Speaker:Um, but that's so untrue.
Speaker:It's, it's not too late.
Speaker:There are things that we can do as individuals or as, as collectives,
Speaker:which is what we're trying to do.
Speaker:There are definitely things that we can do to change how we, how
Speaker:we, uh, think and how we act.
Speaker:And yes, completely agree.
Speaker:And, uh, one of the things could be to read the carbo GAM to,
Speaker:to get informed about things.
Speaker:It can be done.
Speaker:And secondly, another thing.
Speaker:Everyone can do is join the team in carbon monk.
Speaker:Absolutely.
Speaker:Absolutely like learn as much as you possibly can about it and then decide
Speaker:what you can do or, or what letters you can write or what petitions you can sign
Speaker:or what actions you can take because you have power and believe it is, is, is here.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:Better not to be blind about it.
Speaker:Thanks.
Speaker:I Emma.
Speaker:Thank you.
Speaker:Thank you, Jen.
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