Survey Outcomes: How does local weather change impact your well being?

Final month, we launched a talkhealth members’ survey to collect knowledge on our group’s perceptions of local weather change and the way it pertains to their well being. Largely, the information reveals that though nearly all of folks imagine extra must be performed to assist the planet, they aren’t assured of their wider data of the local weather emergency. 

Most individuals (89%) have tailored their life to deal with local weather change and imagine they’ve a private duty to do their bit (90%). That stated, greater than half of respondents (58%) really feel they might be extra well-informed of the potential well being impacts of local weather change. 

With regards to well being, 85% of persons are involved in regards to the potential well being results of local weather change and a considerable portion of respondents (77%) say that the perceived menace of local weather change has influenced their psychological well being and nervousness. 

Nonetheless, when quizzed on whether or not local weather change has had a direct impact on their private well being, over 40% of individuals (46%) are uncertain or haven’t been affected. This proves that though persons are acutely aware of the results of world warming; they is probably not conscious how signs materialise or are extra anxious for the long run.  

Different key findings embody:  

• A 3rd of individuals (37%) are uncertain whether or not local weather change is having a adverse impression on the well being of younger folks nevertheless an identical quantity (31%) cite that it has affected older kin detrimentally.  
• Most individuals (68%) imagine that local weather change can have have an effect on international well being ‘an important deal’ within the subsequent 50 years while solely 20% imagine it’s affecting folks proper now, rising to 31% believing it’s going to take impact within the subsequent 5 years. This reveals that persons are much less conscious of the urgency of local weather change on well being in the present day.  

Learn extra in regards to the survey outcomes right here. 

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