Germans fear migration more than climate change, study finds
Germans fear migration more than climate change, study finds
Europeans — especially Germans — are increasingly keen on curbing immigration and are less focused on climate change, according to a study by a Danish-based think tank.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15202236
Europeans — especially Germans — are increasingly keen on curbing immigration and are less focused on climate change, according to a study by a Danish-based think tank.
Europe has seen a sharp rise in the share of people who say that reducing immigration should be a top government priority, according to a study published Wednesday. Germany is topping the list.
At the same time, there was less desire to prioritize fighting climate change in the same countries, according to the survey commissioned by the Denmark-based Alliance of Democracies Foundation think tank.
Nearly half of German respondents put focus on migration
Since 2022, an increasing number of Europeans say their government should prioritize "reducing immigration," rising from just under 20% to a quarter.
Meanwhile, concern about climate change was on the slide across the continent.
"In 2024, for the first time, reducing immigration is a greater priority for most Europeans than fighting climate change," the report said.
"Nowhere is this reversal more striking than in Germany, which now leads the world with the highest share of people who want their government to focus on reducing immigration — topping all other priorities — and now nearly twice as high as fighting climate change," the report read.
Germans will be glad to learn that fighting climate change ranks high among the ways you can prevent immigration.
Immigration is more visible than climate change, but ultimately what will exacerbate the issue with migrants seeking refuge is climate change.
Want fewer people to seek a safe haven? Try to save their native homes from destruction by fighting climate change.
Yeah, migration will be the most visible impact of climate change for many people. One study estimated 10,000,000 climate refugees internally in the US alone in the next 75 years.
That's a good idea
Well this is entirely unsurprising since politics are constantly playing with this fear.
I wonder if they managed world dominations, would they still worry about migrants 😂
There is concern about climate change being a problem that people need to give up things to fix. And that large corporations aren't going to do there fair share. Also it means confronting ones personal habits of flying, eating meat and driving cars. That whilst people are already afraid of not being able to afford a living.
On the other hand you can project all fear, insecurity doubt on a group of other people. A strange intangible conglomerate that you can ban from your county and project all guilt upon.
This is exploited by the far right, giving people the opium of directed anger, rather than address difficult problems and solve the underlying problem of living insecurity.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Europe has seen a sharp rise in the share of people who say that reducing immigration should be a top government priority, according to a study published Wednesday.
At the same time, there was less desire to prioritize fighting climate change in the same countries, according to the survey commissioned by the Denmark-based Alliance of Democracies Foundation think tank.
"Nowhere is this reversal more striking than in Germany, which now leads the world with the highest share of people who want their government to focus on reducing immigration — topping all other priorities — and now nearly twice as high as fighting climate change," the report read.
The authors found that the greatest perceived threat globally was war and violent conflict, followed by poverty and hunger, and then climate change.
"In the past four years, this perception has remained highest in Latin America, lowest in Asia and has steadily increased in Europe since 2020 — particularly in Germany, the report said.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, chair of the Alliance of Democracies Foundation, said the figures were "a wake-up call for all democratic governments."
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Germans being racist shit bags isn't anything new I guess.
I mean I hope they learnt their lesson in 1945.
But now there are neonazis and aryan nation in 'Merica.
Nobody sees the irony.