Many Europeans want climate action – but less so if it changes their lifestyle

Many Europeans are alarmed by the climate crisis and would willingly take personal steps and back government policies to help combat it, a survey suggests – but the more a measure would change their lifestyle, the less they support it. The seven-country YouGov survey tested backing for state-level climate action, such as banning single-use plastics and scrapping fossil-fuel cars, and individual initiatives including buying only secondhand clothes and giving up meat and dairy products.

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willing：乐意的，自愿的

combat：争斗，战斗（bat- = beat 打，击）

survey：视察；调查（sur- = over，above，beyond，in addition，超过，在上面，和 super-同源；vey = view）

back：后面；还有支持的意思

plastic：塑料；可塑体（plasticine 橡皮泥）

scrape：刮；擦伤（第三人称 scrapes；现在分词 scraping；过去式 scraped）

scrap：n. 碎片；vt. 敲碎；拆毁；废弃（复数 scraps；过去分词 scrapped；现在分词 scrapping）

fossil：化石

fuel：燃料 ⛽️

individual：个体；a. 个别的，个人的（in- 不；进入；在内；divide 分；除；不能在分，个体）

initiative：自主行动

initiate：新人入会的；新加入的

initial：开始的；最初的；n. 首字母

individual initiatives：个人行动

dairy：牛奶公司；乳制品