77% Indians recognise earth is in trouble

Across the world's largest economies, 73 per cent of people believe the earth is approaching potentially abrupt or irreversible tipping points because of human action.

New Delhi: Indians recognise the earth is close to tipping points in terms of global warming and they are worried about the state of nature today, a survey of theG20 nations said.

Following an alarming IPCC climate report that outlines an alarming future, IPSOS Mori and the Global Commons Alliance released a set of new and extremely detailed research on public attitudes towards tipping points, planetary stewardship and necessary economic and societal transformations.

Across the world’s largest economies, 73 per cent of people believe the earth is approaching potentially abrupt or irreversible tipping points because of human action.
People in developing economies showed greater willingness to do more to protect nature and climate than those in advanced economies: Indonesia (95 per cent), South Africa (94 per cent), China (93 per cent), Mexico (93 per cent), Brazil (91 per cent), compared with Japan (61 per cent), Germany (70 per cent), and the US (74 per cent).

“The world is not sleepwalking towards catastrophe. People know we are taking colossal risks, they want to do more and they want their governments to do more,” said Owen Gaffney, the lead author of the report ‘The Global Commons Survey:

Among G20 countries, 74 per cent of people support the idea that their country moves beyond a singular focus on profit and economic growth and focus more on human well-being and ecological protection and regeneration.

The survey revealed that people are less aware of the scientific consensus that sweeping systemic transformations needed in the next decade to protect the global commons and meet climate targets set out in the UN’s Paris Agreement.