this 84% youth who participated in a survey – sample 4210 people between the ages of 16-30 are residing Spain– According to the report “The future climate 2022” presented at the Congress of Deputies this Thursday, he believes that he will live worse than his parents due to climate change.
The report, whose results are broken down by several young climate activists and MPs from different parliamentary groups, sets out the views of Spanish youth on the climate crisis and its management, and also includes some specific recommendations that young people think should be assumed. , reports Eph.
The survey reflects: young people’s commitment to individual changesActivist Carmen Huidobro, one of the organizers of Climabar, summarized, since the majority expressed their willingness to “take on individual changes so that the structural changes continue”.
93.7% said they were satisfied with taking longer trips for leisure trips using less polluting means of transport, and the majority also positioned themselves in favor of returning to the original Mediterranean diet, which was more legumes and vegetables based and less or no. meat.
In addition, three out of every four respondents (77.5%) stated the following: would consume lower-carbon food “if State facilitates consumption.
However, despite this desire for change, eco-anxiety is reflected in the small hopes young people have about their ability to achieve a desirable future with the current energy and food model, and they are demanding “economic decline”, among other things. highlights Huidobro.
“We live in disastrous financial conditions.” Activist and sociologist Miriam Jiménez also highlighted the conditions that paint “a very negative collective dream” with climate policies in place.
45.4% of respondents predict that current climate policies will make their lives worse (90.7% understand this) due to their ineffectiveness in preventing global warming, the effects of which will be felt especially by low-income people.
Deputies from the Congressional Commission on Ecological Transition participated in the presentation, which, like the coordinator of Alianza Verde, Juantxo López de Uralde, encouraged young people to cross-participate in politics while also promoting public climate policies through greater activism. ambitious.
In this sense, the survey data reflects: most young people want to get involved in politics76.1% believe their participation can achieve “significant changes” in the fight for the climate.
While 96% of respondents agreed that the most polluting companies should pay more taxes than those with less ecological impact, 45.2% said that the United Nations climate summits (COP) “do not serve to mitigate the climate crisis and have always remained on paper.” thinks. “.
Along with López de Uralde, lawmakers Mª Carmen Martínez (Cs), Eva Patricia Bueno (PSOE) and Diego Gago (PP), who supported young people in their activism, encouraged them to get involved in politics and called for “optimism”. ” to combat eco-anxiety.