When the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency has examined the Swedes' attitudes to climate change, the result is that the vast majority believe that Sweden will be affected by climate change (93 percent) and an increasing proportion see themselves as climate-conscious (38 percent).

At the same time, there is an increasing proportion of Swedes who have a skeptical or hesitant attitude to both cause and action.

This concerns, for example, the importance of measures, the purchase of fewer things, flying less, eating less meat, obtaining climate information, and the introduction of climate taxes.

There is no weighted figure for how many can be described as "climate-willing", but in many questions around a fifth of the population answers "No hardly," or "Not at all".

The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency has not analyzed king who ends up in the "climate-willing" group and why.

But Johan Bogren, head of the unit for climate instruments, says that the question of why some do not want to make efforts for the climate is interesting.

- It is not positive, but I would like it to be 100 percent.

But it is a majority that is on the train, he says.

Reasons around the thought

There can be many explanations for "climate will", such as that great efforts have already been made, poor public transport, that Sweden's emissions are already low, ignorance, or ideological principles about taxes and the role of the state.

But there are also people who have a skeptical attitude to climate change.

A SOM survey from last summer showed that six percent of the population does not believe in humans changing the climate at all and is thus classified as a climate denier by researchers.

Researcher: Unconvincing

They are difficult to influence, believes Maria Wolrath Söderberg, who has researched climate attitudes at Södertörn University.

- I do not think they are possible to upset in this issue, There is a lot of research that indicates that if you try to convince climate deniers, or someone who has a firm idea about another issue, they will only become more determined in their perception, she says.

Maria Wolrath Söderberg thinks it is better to focus on the vast majority who think that climate change is important, but who still do too little.

- The big stop block is not that we do not know, or believe in the climate crisis, but that it is that we do not act.

It is fantastic fun that many people are very experienced and committed, but if it continues to have very high emissions, it does not matter, she says.

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