Wrong approach? – Majority for climate demos – but against tenacious actions

By now, almost everyone knows about the actions of the climate activists, namely 92 percent of those surveyed say they have heard of the movement. However, 82 percent are quite disillusioned with the success of the campaigns. According to a joint survey by market research institutes Spectra and Integral, published on Tuesday, 82 percent do not or hardly believe that the demonstrations will lead to climate-friendly behavior.

Refusal of any kind of protest
Moreover, the majority of Austrians reject it, as is currently the main protest. 49 percent rate the adhesive campaigns as very negative, 18 percent as fairly negative. 16 percent fully support it or more, and 18 percent say they are ‘neutral’. As the survey shows, critics are also more concerned with the type of protest, as half think it is important to tackle climate change.

53% for more severe punishments
53 percent of respondents would welcome harsher sentences for the activists. But here too there is an ambivalent attitude. Because 40 percent of those ‘hardliners’ find it positive that the activists focus attention on climate change. Almost a third of all respondents think that too much attention is already being paid to this subject.

Between 26 and 31 January, the two market research institutes conducted online surveys among 1,000 people between the ages of 16 and 75, representative of the Austrian population.