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Greta’s school strikes led 30% of Swiss citizens to change habits (www.euronews.com)

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[+] JasSmith@kbin.social -17 points 1 year ago (25 children)

I think this kind of activism is much more effective than the Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion people gluing themselves to roads and preventing ambulances from getting to hospitals.

Support for the climate movement has halved in two years in Germany because of these idiots.

While 68 percent of those surveyed in 2021 said they fundamentally supported the climate movement, the figure in the current publication has halved to 34 percent. What is striking is that support has declined significantly in all social groups, even in more progressive milieus that were otherwise more open to the movement.

When asked specifically about the "Last Generation" road blockades, 85 percent of those surveyed said they had no understanding of this form of protest.

[–] abertausend@feddit.de 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Support may have halved, but I can think of several possible reasons.

Maybe people decided it's a lost cause, we're on the sinking ship, and why not enjoy it while it lasts.

Maybe people realized that they would actually have to take moderate cuts, instead of just talking, doing little, and continuing as always (electing conservatives and neoliberals).

Maybe people fell for "Bild-Zeitung"'s campaigns ("a fraction of heating systems need to be changed out, with government financial assistance, by the year 2044" being portrayed as basically "the Green minister wants to forbid you from heating your home, starting next year").

Maybe support wasn't that sincere if it collapses that easily.

Maybe the last 3 years are not that different from the last 30 years. The rhetoric "please please think of how your children will live" in the last 30 years has impressed about 1 in 5 persons, but not more. 4 out of 5 just don't care.

Maybe the surveys only got support because they presented the issue as "you won't have to do or pay anything or have any inconvenience".

Etc.

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