Although farmers have blockaded half the country and their demonstrations have been controversial – for example throwing sidewalks at police or blocking the passage of ambulances – public support for the farmers’ protests is very strong. More than 72 percent respondents support the protests – reported “Rzeczpospolita”.
The newspaper stated that 51.6 percent respondents strongly support the protests, and 21 percent stated that they would rather support them.
According to the newspaper, of the people surveyed in the IBRiS survey conducted for “Rzeczpospolita”, only one in ten respondents strongly opposed the question about the level of support for the demonstration.
According to the newspaper, this level of support for agricultural demonstrations may come as a surprise to residents of Warsaw and other metropolises stuck in traffic jams caused by demonstrators. However, this does not come as a surprise to sociologists: these attitudes have been present in their research for a long time. However, it is not about solidarity with farmers or knowledge about their difficult situation.
Poland’s concerns
The newspaper reported that Poles fear that as a result of the green transformation they may lose civilizational goods and determinants of progress that they have only recently achieved. – They fear that they will have to give up their combustion engine car and that they will not be able to afford an electric car, which means they will have to return to public transport. In Warsaw this is not a problem, but let’s try to use such transport in the provinces, where 60% of the people live. citizens of the country.
In provincial Poland, without a car is the same as without a hand. There is also the impression that the costs of transformation have been placed on the shoulders of ordinary citizens, and that the profits from this process go to large corporations.
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Source: wPolityce
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