Worldwide Poll: Mexicans Voice Highest Demand for Climate Change Policies, Americans the Lowest

Mexicans favor climate change policies more than the citizens of any other country in the world, according to the results of a poll recently released by World Public Opinion.org.

Americans were the least receptive to having their government focus more on climate change.

The organization asked nearly 20,000 people in the 19 most populous countries how high a priority their government should place on climate change policies.

Respondents used a number between one (the lowest) and 10 (the highest) to indicate the level of priority that they believe the issue should be given.

The highest mean levels were found in:

• Mexico (9.09),
• China (8.86),
• Turkey (8.34), and
• France (8.03).

The lowest mean levels were found in:

• the United States (4.71),
• the Palestinian territories (4.91), and
• Iraq (5.14).

Another question asked respondents if they believed their government should place a higher priority on climate change than it does now.

Nearly 80 percent of Mexicans said their government should place a higher priority on climate change policies than it does currently. Second to Mexico was Chile, where about 60 percent of respondents said their government should focus more on climate change. Only about 50 percent of Americans shared this viewpoint.

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