As reported from Australia in the Observer, “eco matters have fallen down the agenda since 2022 but, a week before the polls, voters are still looking for alternatives to the main parties.” In other words, climate could still sway the Australian election.
As reported in today’s Independent, “public polling from citizens and business leaders released this week suggests that climate action still has overwhelming public support. But years after the school strikes movement peaked, the cost of living crisis is silencing what we all secretly want.” That is: if almost all the world wants climate action, why is it slowing down?
And the Guardian has just launched The 89% Project: “Between 80 and 89% of the world’s people want their governments to be doing more to address climate change. The Guardian has partnered with Covering Climate Now and newsrooms across the globe to tell their stories”
As reported by Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope, co-founders of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now:
“A superpower in the fight against global heating is hiding in plain sight. It turns out that the overwhelming majority of people in the world – between 80% and 89%, according to a growing number of peer-reviewed scientific studies – want their governments to take stronger climate action.”
And as covered by the Guardian’s editor-in-chief:
“We kicked off with an analysis by our environment editor, Damian Carrington, looking into how these studies prove the depths of people’s desire for action and how dispelling the myth that most people don’t care could spark a social tipping point, supercharging climate action...
“What we, and the others in the 89% project, hope it can do is inject some hope and energy into the action we’re already taking, and inspire others to do more. It is easy to be disheartened by constant warnings about our degrading climate and natural world, but knowing that we’re not alone is surely critical. This project has already turned heads at the UN and been praised by scientists. We hope it inspires our readers, too. As one scientist said to Damian: one of the most powerful things you can do is tell people you’re part of the 89%.”
Finally, this is the homepage of The 89 Percent Project:
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