By Jo Nova
It’s rare to see such a dramatic 20 point shift in such a short amount of time
Four years ago, 54% of Brits said they wanted Net Zero to happen even sooner than 2050. Now only 29% do. It’s still a crazy thing to want, to spend billions to change cloud cover in 2100AD, but somehow 20% of the population are more skeptical than what they used to be.
This is a sizeable survey of 4,027 UK adults from 21-27 August 2025.
The ‘culture war’ on net zero: Why have Brits stopped supporting climate policies?
These anodyne surveys will always overestimate the enthusiasm for Net Zero, because they are not asking people how much they are willing to pay, or whether they would rather the government solved something else. Nor are they giving people gung-ho skeptical choices — like asking them if climate change is more like a religion than a science, for example. A question that gets people thinking in a way that 30 years of propaganda never does.
EuroNews asks why this shift happened, but has no idea. They don’t mention the bill shock in electricity prices in the last few years, or […]
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