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Also the healthcare tasks outrank climate change in the new edition of TNS Gallup Climate Barometer, which will be presented today.
This means that Norwegians apparently has gained a more relaxed attitude to climate change over the past year. In last year’s climate barometer was namely only immigration which was seen as a greater challenge than climate change.
Back then, 38 percent immigration was one of our biggest challenges, against 64 per cent in this year’s survey. Meanwhile, the number that mentions climate change, fell from 34 to 25 percent.
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– Manageable level
– Is immigration a major challenge for Norway than climate change, Arnfinn H. Midtbøen, researcher at the Institute for Social Research?
– This is a slightly strange assembly. Ultimately, it is clear that climate change implies a much greater challenge than immigration. When people think immigration is the greatest challenge, probably reflects the media at the time of the survey, when the refugee situation was debated in all media. If the United Nations had published a report on climate change just before the survey to TNS Gallup was completed, could be the end result been different.
– Is immigration generally a big challenge for Norway?
– It is clear that immigration represents a major challenge, especially for a welfare state like Norway, which relies on fast processing, rapid settlement and quick access to the labor market for all with the right to stay. In a period in autumn and winter one could get the feeling that the situation was out of control, because so many people came to the country, but then calmed the situation down and the number of refugees ended on a high but manageable level. What happens during summer and autumn is unclear.
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– Not alarming
– What is the experience in the long term?
– The main picture by immigration over the past 50 years is that it goes fairly well. Employment is generally quite high among immigrants, although it is lower than for the majority and some groups stand out with low employment rates, especially among women. The descendants of immigrants are also not very good, both in terms of education and syssselsetting. This tells us that immigration-term consequences are not alarm clean, although the situation today may allow for unrest.
– Current challenge
– Is increasing unemployment a major challenge for Norway than climate change, Arild Henrik Steen, institute director at the Work Research Institute, AFI?
– Increasing unemployment is a short-term challenge of climate change is also a challenge for the future.
– Should the increasing unemployment worry people?
– Absolutely, although the likelihood of being unemployed is still small. Unemployment also affects those who do not lose their jobs. Now we see for example that the driving school teachers in Rogaland has less to do because fewer can afford to acquire certificate. Increasing unemployment also leads to greater income inequalities, which most people do not want. Also out of the ordinary solidarity experienced rising unemployment as a social problem.
At the same time it is also positive aspects more unemployment, as more mobility in the labor market and better access to labor for municipalities, says Steen.
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– Everything is connected
– Is immigration, growing unemployment and healthcare tasks a greater challenge for Norway than climate change, General Nina Jensen, WWF-Norway?
– These things are interrelated. All that outrank climate change will be exacerbated by climate change. There is reason to fear greater migration and more displaced because of natural disasters and other consequences of climate change. Because of climate change, we must adapt ourselves and it will affect our jobs. Pollution that contributes to climate change also affects our health, including through more respiratory problems, says Jensen.
– There is no doubt that the challenges Norwegians are most concerned about, are interrelated. It prioritizing measures that can solve the climate problem will thus also be able to solve several other problems, she concludes.
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