Environment beats healthcare, cost of living to Australians' prime worry for first time | MattWadeSMH
The environment has for the first time surpassed healthcare, cost of living and the economy to be the number one concern for Australians., which asks a representative sample of Australians to select the three top issues facing the nation, found 32.1 per cent rated the state of the environment among their biggest worries in November - the highest share in the decade-long history of the survey.
Ipsos social researcher Daniel Evans attributed the environment’s No. 1 ranking to two factors - widespread publicity of climate change agitation and protest,“There’s been both activism ... and there’s actual events attributed to climate change,” he said. “Typically when economic concerns have increased, environmental concerns have decreased, but what we’ve noticed this year is that as environmental concerns have gone up, concerns about the economy has gone up as well,” he said. “Those two are no longer on different paths.
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