2023-12-18 17:41:00
In Brazil, the vast majority of the population understands humanity’s impact on the climate crisis. A new Datafolha survey, published this Sunday (17), indicates that 78% of Brazilians affirm that human activities contribute to the warming of the planet, and more than half (54%) believe that they greatly affect the climate.
A quarter of those surveyed (25%) think that the impact is small and 5% did not know how to answer. Only 17% stated that human actions do not contribute to the increase in global temperatures.
According to scientific consensus, current climate changes are caused by greenhouse gases emitted by human activities, mainly the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation. In 2021, an analysis of almost 90,000 scientific articles showed that more than 99.9% of researchers worldwide agree on this issue.
The Datafolha survey was carried out in person, with 2,004 people aged 16 or older in 135 municipalities in Brazil, on December 5. The margin of error is two percentage points, with a confidence rate of 95%.
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