Kyoto 'a waste of time' say half of Australians
By staff writers, News.com.au, October 14, 2008 12:01am
Almost half of Australians believe the signing of the Kyoto Protocol - a cornerstone of Kevin Rudd’s election campaign - was a waste of time.
A whopping 73 per cent of respondents to a news.com.au survey, conducted by CoreData, also said the Rudd Government was not doing enough or could be doing more to combat climate change.
Mr Rudd’s much-lauded ratification of the Kyoto Protocol has had no beneficial effect on climate change, said 44 per cent of 1122 news.com.au readers.
Just 14 per cent of people said Kyoto had helped curb the effects of climate change.
Another 41 per cent believed more time was needed before any result was apparent.
The Government is acting on the concerns Australians have about the issue, a spokeswoman for climate change minister Penny Wong says.
"The Rudd Government understands that Australians want to tackle climate change and we have set out a plan to do so,” the spokeswoman said.
"Our plan to tackle climate change has three pillars: reducing carbon pollution, helping to shape a global solution, and adapting to the climate change we can't avoid.”
A proposed carbon reduction scheme is one of the ways to help fight climate change, she says.
The way we live:
Men are far more likely to be climate change sceptics than women, according to the survey.
While 85 per cent of women said there was enough evidence to link human activity to climate change, only 54 per of men agreed.
Men were also twice as likely as women to believe Australia’s signing of the Kyoto Protocol was of no benefit.
About 55 per cent of Australians believed climate change would alter day-to-day life over the next decade, and about half said it was “truly possible” to resolve the issue.
Two-thirds of Australians said they took environmental factors into consideration when buying goods.
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