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Most in middle-income countries feel effects of climate crisis, willing to adjust lifestyle to reduce impacts

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Climate change no longer just elicits feelings of impending doom; for people in middle-income countries, it is a crisis they face every day, disrupting their lives and livelihoods.

Some 74 per cent of the people interviewed in a new survey said climate change has impacted their community to some extent, according to Pew Research Centre that conducted the survey. Data were drawn from 12,375 adults living in nine middle-income countries: Argentina, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa and Turkey.

At least half the respondents in the three Latin American countries said the climate crisis has impacted their societies a great deal.

Climate change has made the places they live so inhospitable that a majority of the respondents said they are willing to change the way they live and work to escape the impacts.

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