{"id":58855,"date":"2021-08-29T10:10:40","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T09:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=58855"},"modified":"2021-08-29T10:10:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T09:10:40","slug":"the-environment-is-now-the-number-two-issue-of-public-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2021\/08\/29\/the-environment-is-now-the-number-two-issue-of-public-concern\/","title":{"rendered":"The environment is now the number two issue of public concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipsos.com\/ipsos-mori\/en-uk\/public-concern-about-climate-change-and-pollution-doubles-near-record-level\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ipsos MORI Issues Index for August 2021<\/a> shows public concern about the environment has jumped sixteen percentage points over last month's Index.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-58857\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-29-at-10.02.49-550x322.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-29-at-10.02.49-550x322.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-29-at-10.02.49-513x300.png 513w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-29-at-10.02.49-768x449.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-29-at-10.02.49-600x351.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-29-at-10.02.49.png 1446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This could, of course, be an aberration. It may be that Westminster was out of sight in August. And it could be because people are actually seeing what climate change is really doing to the planet now. Ipsos MORI were, I think, confused, saying:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-58858\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-29-at-10.05.10-550x278.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-29-at-10.05.10-550x278.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-29-at-10.05.10-768x389.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-29-at-10.05.10-600x304.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-29-at-10.05.10.png 1494w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I think the last is particularly telling. It is rare for there to be such cross-cutting issues. It seems that the environment is.<\/p>\n<p>Now, when will the government take it seriously, because right now, right around the world, no one thinks that it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ipsos MORI Issues Index for August 2021 shows public concern about the environment has jumped sixteen percentage points over last month&#8217;s Index. This could,<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2021\/08\/29\/the-environment-is-now-the-number-two-issue-of-public-concern\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,108,74,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","category-green-new-deal","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}