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And a separate report from Climate Transparency, a coalition of international climate organizations, found Canada is among the highest per-capita users of energy, with emissions from both the transportation sector and buildings four times the G20 average. Dawson said there are some obvious choices like choosing public-transit, eating less meat, and using air travel less. Even something as simple as continuing to engage in conversations around climate change and getting politically active at the municipal or local level can help, Easterbook said. “People say, what does that achieve? Until we are more honest about our fears and discover that other people have those same fears, we just don’t realize how widespread the desire to do something about [climate change] is,” he said. “We have to be talking about it, with neighbours, with co-workers, with family, so we all realize we are in this together.”Exclusive Global News Ipsos polls are protected by copyright. The information and/or data may only be rebroadcast or republished with full and proper credit and attribution to “Global News Ipsos.” This poll was conducted between Dec. 3 and 5.. For this survey, in total a sample of n = 1,002 Canadians aged 18+ was interviewed via the Ipsos I-Say Panel. Quotas and weighting were employed to balance demographics to ensure that the sample’s composition reflects that of the adult population according to Census data and to provide results intended to approximate the sample universe. The precision of Ipsos online polls is measured using a credibility interval. In this case, the poll is accurate to within ± 3.5 percentage points, 19 times out of 20, had all Canadians been polled. Story continues below advertisement
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