Three fourths of Icelanders believe global climate is changing a new study reveals. The proportion is only higher in Portugal and Spain. Despite the high percentage of Icelanders who believe in climate change, most expect these changes will not pose a serious threat to their way of life: Only 32% are worried about climate change.
While the high proportion of Icelanders who agree with the scientific consensus that global climate is changing is encouraging news to climate change activists, the low percentage of Icelanders who see the change as a pressing problem is more worrisome. Helga Ögmundsdóttir, a professor of Anthropology at the University of Iceland told the National Broadcasting Service that the Icelandic attitude of Þetta reddast might be to blame.
We are very serene, as a nation, she argued, pointing out Icelanders tend not to worry about things that appear to be out of their hands, adopting a come what may attitude, assuming that problems should be dealt with only when they are upon them, assuming at the same time that things have a tendency of working themselves out.
Read more: 45% of Icelanders live by the motto Þetta reddast, the quintessential Icelandic credo
Three fourths of Icelanders believe global climate is changing a new study reveals. The proportion is only higher in Portugal and Spain. Despite the high percentage of Icelanders who believe in climate change, most expect these changes will not pose a serious threat to their way of life: Only 32% are worried about climate change.
While the high proportion of Icelanders who agree with the scientific consensus that global climate is changing is encouraging news to climate change activists, the low percentage of Icelanders who see the change as a pressing problem is more worrisome. Helga Ögmundsdóttir, a professor of Anthropology at the University of Iceland told the National Broadcasting Service that the Icelandic attitude of Þetta reddast might be to blame.
We are very serene, as a nation, she argued, pointing out Icelanders tend not to worry about things that appear to be out of their hands, adopting a come what may attitude, assuming that problems should be dealt with only when they are upon them, assuming at the same time that things have a tendency of working themselves out.
Read more: 45% of Icelanders live by the motto Þetta reddast, the quintessential Icelandic credo
