Islamic State and Climate Change Seen as Worlds Greatest Threats, Poll Says

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Source: nytimes




Islamic State and Climate Change Seen as World’s Greatest Threats, Poll Says


https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/climate/islamic-state-climate-change-worlds-greatest-threats-pew-survey.html

A coal-burning plant in China’s Inner Mongolia region. Residents of 13 countries ranked climate change as the greatest threat to national security.
David Gray / Reuters
By LISA FRIEDMAN
August 1, 2017

Climate change is essentially tied with the Islamic State as the most-feared security threat across much of the world — except in the United States, where cyberattacks are considered a greater danger than global warming, according to a Pew Research Center report released on Tuesday.

Residents of 13 countries ranked climate change as the greatest threat to national security, while in 17 countries the Islamic State was considered a more immediate problem.

In the United States, however, a gaping partisan divide pushed climate change to third-most severe perceived threat, after ISIS and cyberwarfare. Just 56 percent of Americans surveyed identified global warming as the most serious threat to the country, compared to 71 percent for cyberwarfare and 74 percent for Islamic State attacks.

The American intelligence community concluded that Russia used cyberweapons to interfere with the presidential election last year, perhaps accounting for the heightened sense of threat. The Trump administration has consistently played down the dangers of a warming climate and has withdrawn the United States from the Paris accord on climate change signed by nearly 200 nations.

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Demonstrators gathered in front of the White House in March to oppose President Trump’s executive order rolling back many of President Barack Obama’s climate-change policies.
Stephen Crowley / The New York Times

[woundedkarma]

1. shows you how good the isis marketing campaign is

Russia should be #1... isis is a joke

[NobodyHere]

3. Too bad we didn't think that way 5 years ago

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. Link to the Pew Research Center page

http://www.pewglobal.org/2017/08/01/globally-people-point-to-isis-and-climate-change-as-leading-security-threats/

It has some demographic splits inside countries too; the US shows a distinctly higher divide over ISIS, refugees and climate change than other western countries (seeing refugees as a threat is a right wing thing everywhere, but some places like France and Italy have pretty small differences between left and right on how they see ISIS and climate change). Older people feel more threatened by ISIS; those with less education feel refugees are a threat.