In August, the Public Opinion Research Center conducted a survey on the attitudes toward climate change and current global issues on the probabilistic panel Naše společnost (Our Society). This press release summarizes the analytical results in the context of current global issues from the perspective of the Czech population—it shows which of certain global issues respondents consider serious and to what extent.
Czechs consider waste accumulation to be the most serious global issue, with more than half (52%) of respondents describing it as a "very serious" problem and another two-fifths (42%) describing it as a "fairly serious" problem.
The second most significant problem, according to the domestic population, is the pollution of drinking water, which 53% described as "very serious" and two-fifths (40%) as "quite serious." Respondents also consider ocean pollution, the loss of rainforests, and the lack of drinking water to be similarly serious issues.
The problem considered the least serious of the selected phenomena is the operation of nuclear power plants, which only a quarter (26%) of respondents consider "very and quite serious," while another quarter (26%) said it was "not a problem at all."
The most significant difference in terms of gender is in the item of nuclear power plant operation, which is considered serious by 13% of men (3% "very serious," 10% "rather serious") compared to 39% of women (10% "very serious," 29% "rather serious").
The results show that respondents with basic education perceive the cultivation of genetically modified foods as a more serious problem (total "very and rather serious" problem 59%) compared to respondents with higher education (total "very and rather serious" problem 39%).
Most of the items surveyed were perceived as a serious problem more often by women than by men (13 out of 14 items are considered "very serious" and "quite serious" to a greater extent by women than by men).
Due to a change in the CVVM survey methodology, the results of the present survey are not directly comparable to the results of previous surveys. More information about the new methodology can be found in this press release.
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- Download the full press release here: oe250924.pdf
- All reports from this survey: PNS_2508
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