Jul 27, 2026 07:29 PM
(This post was last modified: Jul 28, 2026 02:56 AM by C C.)
So those quasi-successful attempts by governments (like Germany), to undermine their regional economies with green energy replacement, are just regarded by the masses as superficial virtue signaling? The latter actually crave more fetish-level punishment? (Closings, job losses, price increases, etc.)
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Europeans are increasingly worried about climate change
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1137636
INTRO: Over the past decade, environmental concern among Europeans grew, despite migration, financial crises and the COVID‑19 pandemic – rising to become the third most important issue after health and the economy. Over the same period, climate change moved from being one of many problems to the most important environmental issue in Europe.
These and other insights into European environmental attitudes are analysed in detail in a new monograph, Green European Revisited, published by Palgrave Macmillan Cham. This is the second volume by the same team, again focusing on how Europeans think about environmental issues over time.
“There is a myth, which I hear time and time again, that Europe is a so-called green continent,” Professor Audronė Telešienė, a researcher at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania, the chief editor of the book, says, “whereas in reality, Europe has placed exceptionally heavy pressures on the natural environment, greater in some respects than those generated by several other continents combined. As the first continent to industrialise, it has experienced extensive and long-term ecosystem degradation.”
However, she emphasises that Europeans demonstrate leadership in implementing green policies that can help the world to deal with the climate crisis and its impacts. Nordic countries are most concerned... (MORE - details)
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Europeans are increasingly worried about climate change
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1137636
INTRO: Over the past decade, environmental concern among Europeans grew, despite migration, financial crises and the COVID‑19 pandemic – rising to become the third most important issue after health and the economy. Over the same period, climate change moved from being one of many problems to the most important environmental issue in Europe.
These and other insights into European environmental attitudes are analysed in detail in a new monograph, Green European Revisited, published by Palgrave Macmillan Cham. This is the second volume by the same team, again focusing on how Europeans think about environmental issues over time.
“There is a myth, which I hear time and time again, that Europe is a so-called green continent,” Professor Audronė Telešienė, a researcher at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania, the chief editor of the book, says, “whereas in reality, Europe has placed exceptionally heavy pressures on the natural environment, greater in some respects than those generated by several other continents combined. As the first continent to industrialise, it has experienced extensive and long-term ecosystem degradation.”
However, she emphasises that Europeans demonstrate leadership in implementing green policies that can help the world to deal with the climate crisis and its impacts. Nordic countries are most concerned... (MORE - details)
