Perceived threat of climate change in the second half of life
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| author | Bünning, Mareike Hagen, Christine Simonson, Julia |
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| contents | <p>This <abbr lang="de" title="Deutsches Zentrum für Altersfragen">DZA</abbr> Aktuell provides a contribution on attitudes towards climate change. It shows how strongly people in the second half of life feel threatened by the climate crisis. In addition to differentiations according to age, gender, income and educational status, correlations with self-rated health and family generation sequence (with/without children, with/without grandchildren) are presented and the perceived threat is compared with that posed by the Covid-19 pandemic.</p> <p>Key messages:<br>Over one in four people in the second half of life (28%) perceived a high threat from the climate crisis in 2023.<br>Climate change is perceived as a significantly greater threat than Covid-19.<br>There are no age differences regarding the perceived threat posed by the climate crisis.<br>Women felt more threatened by the climate crisis than men.<br>However, there were no differences between income and education groups.<br>People with good self-rated health had a lower perception of threat from the climate crisis.<br>People who have children but no grandchildren perceived a greater threat from the climate crisis than those with grandchildren</p> |
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| spellingShingle | Perceived threat of climate change in the second half of life Bünning, Mareike Hagen, Christine Simonson, Julia DEAS 2023; climate changes; threat; age groups; gender differences; Income; socio-economic status; subjective health; family relationship; generation; Corona-Pandemic;Germany <p>This <abbr lang="de" title="Deutsches Zentrum für Altersfragen">DZA</abbr> Aktuell provides a contribution on attitudes towards climate change. It shows how strongly people in the second half of life feel threatened by the climate crisis. In addition to differentiations according to age, gender, income and educational status, correlations with self-rated health and family generation sequence (with/without children, with/without grandchildren) are presented and the perceived threat is compared with that posed by the Covid-19 pandemic.</p> <p>Key messages:<br>Over one in four people in the second half of life (28%) perceived a high threat from the climate crisis in 2023.<br>Climate change is perceived as a significantly greater threat than Covid-19.<br>There are no age differences regarding the perceived threat posed by the climate crisis.<br>Women felt more threatened by the climate crisis than men.<br>However, there were no differences between income and education groups.<br>People with good self-rated health had a lower perception of threat from the climate crisis.<br>People who have children but no grandchildren perceived a greater threat from the climate crisis than those with grandchildren</p> |
| title | Perceived threat of climate change in the second half of life |
| topic | DEAS 2023; climate changes; threat; age groups; gender differences; Income; socio-economic status; subjective health; family relationship; generation; Corona-Pandemic;Germany |
| url | https://doi.org/10.60922/02x9-vt22 |