Young people in Europe worry most about climate change—even in the midst of a pandemic that has hammered the global economy and turned daily life upside-down around the world, a poll showed on Wednesday.
Almost half of the respondents in the survey of more than 22,000 young people in 23 European countries said they considered global warming among humanity’s most serious problems.
Environmental degradation ranked second in the list of top worries with 44 percent, followed by the spread of infectious diseases and poverty with 36 percent each. Respondents were asked to list up to three issues.
The European Environmental Bureau (EEB), a network of green groups which commissioned t…
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