A piece of the Perito Moreno glacier breaks off and crashes into Lake Argentino.
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Here’s How Climate Change Is Viewed Around the World
The crisis might be global, but glaring disparities make a united response more complicated.
Wildfires in California and Siberia. Floods wiping out grain harvests in Argentina. Droughts forcing water restrictions in Cape Town and affecting shipping on Germany’s Rhine River.
Climate change is global in nature, and is creeping higher in surveys of voter concerns. In some countries it’s at or near the top, but it’s not regarded with the same urgency the world over. A Bloomberg collation of polls reveals some glaring disparities in the way the emerging crisis is viewed against other worries like jobs and security.