Concern about climate change
Q. Over the last 2 years, have you become more concerned or less concerned about the environmental effects of global warming or do you feel about the same as you did 2 years ago?
|
Total |
|
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
Vote other |
|
Sep 14 |
Dec 14 |
|
| Total more concerned |
52% |
63% |
41% |
76% |
36% |
52% |
51% |
||
| Total less concerned |
8% |
6% |
11% |
7% |
11% |
9% |
9% |
||
| Much more concerned |
19% |
24% |
10% |
46% |
13% |
22% |
21% |
||
| A little more concerned |
33% |
39% |
31% |
30% |
23% |
30% |
30% |
||
| About the same |
37% |
30% |
45% |
17% |
49% |
35% |
35% |
||
| A little less concerned |
5% |
4% |
7% |
3% |
4% |
6% |
6% |
||
| Much less concerned |
3% |
2% |
4% |
4% |
7% |
3% |
3% |
||
| Don’t know |
5% |
2% |
3% |
– |
4% |
4% |
5% |
52% say they have become more concerned about the environmental effects of global warming over the last two years and 8% have become less concerned – 37% feel about the same.
These results are very similar to those when this question was asked in December.
Those most likely to have become more concerned were Labor voters (63%), Greens voters (76%) and people with university degrees (58%).
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