14 DAY TRIAL // Not that anyone would ever dream of accusing politicians of making one promise or another in an attempt to secure more votes, but, as it turns out, those who want to become really popular would do well to grab a pencil and a piece of paper and start drafting green policies.
This is because, according to a new survey commissioned by the World Wildlife Fund in the United Kingdom and carried out by Vision Critical, environmental policies have a noteworthy influence on voters' choices.
More precisely, the organization explains that, according to the findings of this survey, quite a lot of people are ready and willing to rethink their political allegiance and shift their vote depending on the environmental policies that they are presented with.
Business Green informs that, out of 2,000 people interviewed as part of this survey, 70% said that, to their knowledge, climate change and global warming were the greatest threats the planet was facing.
According to the same source, some 73% of the 2,000 folks taken into consideration for this investigation argued that, as far as they could tell, the main political parties in the United Kingdom were still a long way from giving said phenomena due consideration.
Consequently, it should not come as a surprise that, out of the total number of respondents, 47% admitted to being willing to shift their vote depending on the green policies brought forth by various parties.
The specialists who carried out this investigation say that, although climate change and global warming have been an issue for some time now, it was only after the United Kingdom experienced a series of severe floods and powerful storms at the beginning of this year that people started being interested in environmental policies.
Thus, 64% of respondents said that recent floods and other extreme weather manifestations were the ones to bring home the reality of climate change and global warming, and 53% admitted that they only started paying attention to the environmental policy sections included in party manifestos in the aftermath of these incidents.
Presently, 88% of the people surveyed think that the United Kingdom government must do more to limit and prevent flooding and extreme weather manifestations, and 72% want high officials to support the development of the country's clean energy industry and curb greenhouse gas emissions at the same time.
“The findings of this survey echo what we've found with Earth Hour – namely that millions of people in the UK want to protect our planet, are willing to take action in their own lives and expect action, not just words, from their political leaders,” Colin Butfield with the World Wildlife Fund said in a statement.