People of Leeds need to make a “bold” move towards climate change before its too late, experts say.
Many people are prepared to change their diets and get more public transport, but according to exclusive survey findings aren’t willing to catch less flights abroad.
Climate Change is a very crucial issue in that we need to tackle for ourselves, the environment and future generations.
In its essence it is a significant shift in the planets temperature and weather patterns, caused by greenhouse gases. Greenhouse gases are harmful and are largely caused by human activities that emit the gases onto the earths atmosphere. The change effects everything and everyone. For example, inhabitable temperatures, rising sea levels, extreme weather and destroying ecosystems.
Many people in today’s society have conflicted views about whether climate change is a problem. We asked a number of people in Leeds what there view is.
Of 57 respondents, 39 feel that climate change is a pressing issue and will change there lifestyle towards it, in a survey Leeds Now Conducted.
Cllr Katie Dye, Chair of Climate Emergency Advisory Committee
“My point of view is that everyone has to do there bit and that goes for government, national government, local councils and individual people. So Leeds has to do its bit, we have enormous carbon emissions from the houses we live in, the transport we use, the food we eat. It’s a world issue that will be solved by all the people of the world and we are some of them.”
“Personally, for me it’s a fundamental part of who I am. I don’t eat meat or dairy, I drive an electric car, I don’t buy new clothes I buy second hand. It’s hugely important to me.”
Leigh Hoath, Associate Professor leading science education at Leeds Trinity University and Co-Chair of the Association for Science Education (ASE) also commented on climate change and the importance of educating climate change.
“We don’t have much time and what we do in the next decade will have a significant impact in what happens in the next thousand years. So we have got to either make a bold move on it now or time will have passed.”
Approximately 64% of adults in UK claimed to be somewhat or very worried of the impact of climate change. The people were of different variations of region, sex and socio-economic status, according to UK national statistics. In which was similar to our findings in which 65% of the sample in Leeds said this.
It is important for the people of Leeds to focus on climate change as cities experience warmer temperatures than suburban areas due to the volume of human activity and lack of greenspaces, according to Defra.
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