The majority of Britons are unwilling to significantly reduce the amount they drive, fly and eat meat in order to combat climate change, a Sky Data poll reveals.
Just over half - 53% - say they would be unwilling even in principle to significantly reduce the amount they fly, while 28% say they would be willing to give up travelling by plane or reduce the amount they do so significantly .People responding to polls often overclaim their willingness to change their behaviour in ways considered socially desirable - but despite this some 52% say they would be unwilling to reduce the amount of meat they eat much or at all to help reduce global warming.
Four in ten say they would be willing to either reduce their meat consumption significantly or give it up entirely . A further eight percent do not eat meat.A report from the Committee on Climate Change called for people to reduce how much meat they eat and how often they fly.It also called for the government to bring forward the planned ban on conventional car sales by ten years to 2030, encouraging people to switch to driving electric cars.
I really don't give a damn. I'm not going to let anyone dictate how I should live my life.
Currently today doing the tourist thing around Runnymede and Windsor....air travel 10/10 ....global climate change 0/10
So we are fucked then.
I’ve done my bit to help save the planet. I’ve chosen not to have kids.
Because if you've been around long enough you know it's a load of bollocks 🙄
CllrBSilvester So we suffer while while the rest of the world continues regardless.
Poll which can't actually be verified by people it's propaganda pushed at attempts to push an agenda at the 'poor' whilst the globalists, elites and lovvies do exactly what they want and when! They can shove their nanny state for us minions
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Looks like their part of this earth will have only 5 years left!
Thought brilliant that horse faced moaning woman think was an actor many years back, blocking London roads and causing chaos but had to fly in then out again, perhaps better to practice what preaches and protest using the internet or coming on a boat . What a halfwit
Hardly surprising when some of the environmental protestors think it acceptable to fly all the way from the USA to tell the UK public all about climate change.
I only fly once a bloody year
Hooray! Exactly! People are pissed off at austerity and being told they need to cut back when no other fucker is doing it. Wisen up.
Good coz it's BS
It's the multinationals who need to stop blinding us with their virtue signalling and show us a real example.
The OPEC countries have the patents on hydrogen fuel cars, but have to sell every drop of oil first.
Another poll of SKY customers?
I'm NOT going to reduce my carbon foot print, not my job, if you pay me £50k a year, then I will reduce.
Is 899 people a good representation of the whole population? Hmmm, I’m thinking not
We’ll be issuing ration books shortly, it’s all getting out of hand and not thought through on impact on jobs, manufacturing, the economy.
A cow makes 120kg of methane per year. Which is 23 times worse than co2 says pinkos. An acre of hay sequesters 15 tons of co2 per year. So hay 30,000 lbs of co2. A cow is 6072 lbs. 120x2.2x23. Most farmers run 1 cow per acre So technically all this is a lie.
Very sad
In grand scheme of things the UK's footprint is virtually irrelevant.
Unwilling or unconvinced that people are making the impact being claimed. Those exaggerating effects have to take some of the blame.
Sky new is unwilling to stop tweeting all it’s “news” stories twice to fight fake news.... I mean “climate change”
I work damn hard to take my one family holiday abroad every year, why should I even entertain the idea when other countries around the world couldn’t give two fucks about it
I’m fed up with this nanny state. I’m being told that I don’t know what I voted for; I shouldn’t eat meat; I ought to give up the luxury of a nice break abroad and I’m told to spend more time travelling to and from work on a bus instead of enjoying that time with family.
Yeah but the big rich elites are running about in big petrol guzzling cars.jet setting all over the world.and the cherry for them is,charge carbon tax to Mr Joe blogs and these cunts have all got shares in this carbon scam. Wake up!!!
Until the politicians lead by example and practice what they preach and respect democratic public votes , what do you expect .
Carbon tax incoming..
Yes we need to stop flying to compensate for all these flights being taken and travelling by car by the Eco brigade to publicise their cause
Not surprising when there is (as usual), lack of leadership and no clarity on policy & planning from the Govt. ‘Recycle, use your car less, avoid plastics, tie fracking in red tape etc etc. Oh and we’re going to increase flights over London by a third’ 🤦♂️🤷♂️
Stupid loonie lefties lying about climate change in an effort to get people to live according to their mad rules.There is no climate change.
Look at f1 Formula 1 in a month or so! They race in Monaco. Fly everything over to Canada for 1 bloody race, then come back to France!!!! Absolute joke. 🤬🤬🤬🤬
So.. people realise that having the government controlling where you can go on holiday, how your drive, where you work etc etc isn't the best thing going ..
Cut down imports, cut down buying stuff from China. Produce more in the UK, using green power. No point in being greener in the uk if we are buying goods from countries that polluting more and more, transported across the world in polluting ships. Look at the bigger picture.
petuniasforever Classic do as I say, not do as I do. The political class & big business are brilliant at telling normal folk what to do without doing it the world’s biggest polluters which isn’t normal British folk!
Here we go taking punishment for the rest of the world . I have planted a tree but steer clear of my food thats pushing it.
petuniasforever Rightly so. Climate changes and has always changed
Majority of Brits not fooled by excuse to tax them for no purpose more like.
Start with China, India and the US! Then we can start talking.
I’m fed up with this nanny state. I’m being told that I don’t know what I voted for; I shouldn’t eat meat; I ought to give up the luxury of a nice break abroad and I’m told to spend more time travelling to and from work on a bus instead of enjoying that time with family. Fuck off
I won’t cut back until Donald Trump accepts climate change.
Poorly conducted poll & poorly presented statistics. The answers to your own leading questions actually show that: 71% WILL reduce meat 🥩 66% WILL reduce their driving 🚘 56% WILL reduce their flying ✈️ That clearly doesn't fit your agenda. FakeNews ClimateEmergency sky
That's crap, you aren't asking the right people who want a safe place to live for their grand children.
comments on here just make you despair. Of course pumping billions of tonnes of C02 into the atmosphere every year will make the atmosphere more dense and therefore hold more thermal energy aka heat. We need to make changes before we well and truly wreck our only home.
Working class people, especially those on benefits are probably the least polluters. After all, they can't afford a car so have to walk or get a bus. They can't afford holidays abroad. They can't afford to switch the heating on. The protestors are probably worst of the lot.
JonD99 Perhaps because the majority of people know it's complete BOLLOCKS.
We can travel by cow once the twits ban cars and meat eating.
How did GretaThunberg get to UK? Was it on a plane? 🙄🤔
Because we are fed up of having it rammed down our throats by a bunch of posh hypocrites. Ban meat completely and end up as pale and anemic as the tree huggers no thanks.
Maybe the government would like to subsidise the completely and utterly ridiculous costs of alternatives like getting the bus or train?
Electric planes are the answer or hybrid.
I love my holidays so flights are staying. I eat low carb, so meat is staying. I drive because I have to get to work and would rather travel take 10 mins rather than an hour on two buses. I work damn hard, so intend to enjoy my life thank you.
It will take care of itself when they need visas for everywhere that cost a fortune and the pound has tanked so it’s horrendously expensive. brexit is a poison to the nation.
Which is what I’ve been saying all along. The Cult of Climate Change are hypocrites. If just 30% of its believers adopted an Amish lifestyle then that would be enough to cut the carbon to avoid this alleged catastrophe
Majority of Brits generally can't be arsed to do more than the basic minimum, knowing full well that someone else will probably do it for them... unless it's eating yet another cake, staring at a phone or gassing about the football, the soaps, what someone said on Facebook, etc..
I’m quite happy to help how about we get an allowance like say limited to two or three return flights a year or maybe a total air mileage allowance but i somehow can’t see how all these spoiled brats and actors will cope without there global wandering
God. The state of this country. I despair.
I would but what about the rest of the economic world, USA Russia China India will that? Simple answer no
Triple the cost of flying via HEAVY taxation. Let insurance companies refuse to pay out home insurance for climate change related weather incidents and refuse to pay for flood defenses..that'll get people motivated bloody quickly!!
Does that surprise you in any way ?
Absolutely. I’ll continue to recycle as I do, but cut back on meat and travel? Nah. How about we start with China and deforestation, then think about everyone else 👍.
BathNESUKIP We don't get paid to do so. So whats the point?
I’ll recycle as much as I can, turn my heating down, eat less meat, use refillable Bottles for Water and avoid Palm Oil. But I’ll NEVER EVER give up my love of flying to foreign climes !!
And what about the rest of the world. Do we stop buying from that country until they pull their weight
Why should i cut back while climate activists are driving/ flying all over the place... they are just a bunch of middle class hypocrites
Taxation then
BremainInSpain I expect they voted for Brexit as well.
Only fly once or twice a year so I deffo will not change that... Possibly look into the business men who fly weekly up and down the country.
I've had 6 holidays abroad in 49 years, I swapped my 1.6 litre Mondeo for a less than 1 litre Peugeot 107 in which I average about 6000 miles a year -i don't think I'm doing the environment that much harm personally.
Majority of Brits know better. Some random kid gets to chat with Corbyn, and all of a sudden you want to make it illegal to buy anything other than an electric car in 10 years. Let's make all the sacrifices unilaterally here in the UK whilst the rest of the world laughs at us.
BremainInSpain If the damage done by the burps (and farts) of cattle is down to their herbivorous diet, does it mean that the burps and farts of vegans are more damaging than other people's? Just wondering.
Not sure on that one. Most people are willing to try and live a bit more simple in their lifestyle.
Yeah sod climate change bs and get me a steak.
I hate to say it but maybe they're smarter over there across the pond.
How about offering incentives again instead of penalising people and it might just get somewhere! Bring back the solar PV and Thermal grant, introduce an air heating grant for homes. Actually invest in people for a change and stop with taxation and increasing costs! SolarEnergy
This probably includes the protesters as well
how about pricing travel, especially by air, full costs. instead industry gets subsidized
Ahhhh yes. Tragedy of the Commons. Humans being as selfish as ALWAYS
No such proof !! The earth was totally covered in water !! You only need to look at coastal erosion on the cliffs to tell!! The water will just keep evaporating .... The end !!
Well who’d a thunk it. That actually shows how wrong the militant Warmists have got it. People will make changes when they see it makes sense and is in their interests. The CC narrative has been undermined by the lies told in its support.
We can cut out beef and reduce pork consumption (except for the bacon) and help the environment, as long as we don't overcompensate by increasing the demand for the lamb?
More people realising its another tax grab
I agree, I’m not going to change anything
I would be interested to know what percentage of the UK fly annually.
Load of shit that’s why
Just tell them the EU says we are not allowed to eat less meat or reduce our carbon footprint in any way - job done.
Majority of Brits voted leave and that didn't make much difference either 🤷🏻♂️
Its because most sane people know that we are not the cause nor can have effect.
Damn right. I keep hearing 'dangerous temperatures'. Happy to risk it. Fuck the environment!
Excellent news. Wisdom of crowds, innit?
They're not scared enough yet. But we're a weather event away from sheer terror and then they will be.
Ooooohhhhhhhhh.....it's another SKY poll.
One big con.
Nothing will change. Life will continue as we know it.
I’d happily stop driving and use the train if it wasn’t so bloody expensive and unreliable!
Climate change nonsense
There's a surprise