Less than one-half of Filipino adults say that they know enough about climate change, a Pulse Asia survey showed Monday.
“From June 2022 to September 2023, there is an increase in the percentage of Filipinos with enough knowledge about climate change while the reverse occurs in terms of those with little knowledge ,” the survey stated. The majority of Filipinos living in Luzon and Mindanao as well as all socio-economic groups, however, said that they have only little“The only exception is the Visayas, where a small majority of adult residents claim to have sufficient knowledge. Meanwhile, 11 percent of adults say they have wide knowledge about climate change while five percent have almost/completely no knowledge,” the survey stated.
Meanwhile, 71 percent of Filipino adults believe that climate change is dangerous to themselves and their families, 12 percent say climate change isResults of the survey also show that 46 percent of Filipinos attribute calamities to human-made environmental destruction while 32 percent believe that calamities are natural processes.