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BERLIN, Oct 19 – Concerns about climate change shrank across the world last year, a survey shows, with fewer than half those questioned believing it posed a “very serious threat” to their countries in the next 20 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Only 20% of people in China, the world’s biggest polluter, said they believed that climate change was a very serious threat, down 3 percentage points from the previous poll in 2019, the survey by Gallup World Risk Poll showed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Globally, the figure fell by 1.5 percentage points to 48.7% in 2021, it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The COVID-19 pandemic and concerns about more immediate issues such as health and livelihoods may partly explain the drop, the survey, based on over 125,000 interviews in 121 countries, showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Climate change awareness rose slightly in the United States in 2021, the second biggest global polluter, to 51.5%, it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Regions with the highest ecological threats are on average the least concerned about climate change, with only 27.4% of the Middle East and North Africa and 39.1% of South Asian respondents concerned about the risks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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