This report summarizes the results of the 2018 Questionnaire on Environmental Problems and the Survival of Humankind, a survey conducted annually by the Asahi Glass Foundation since 1992. As in previous years, the Asahi Glass Foundation wishes to continue communicating the current thoughts and opinions of environmental experts around the world on the state of the global environment to as many people as possible.
Thanks to the cooperation of the participants, we received 1,866 responses to the questionnaire this year. (2,152 responses in 2017) We would like to express our gratitude for the opportunity to report once again this year on an environmental survey covering most regions of the world.
This year, the average time on the Environmental Doomsday Clock was 9:47, representing the most urgent sense of crisis since the survey began. It is noteworthy that for the first time respondents in their 20s and 30s moved the clock forward further than all age groups for the first time. Influenced perhaps by numerous respondents from China, these results show an increasing and changing awareness of the environmental crisis.
As in the previous fiscal year, we will post comments from respondents in each country on the website of the Asahi Glass Foundation (http://www.af-info.or.jp/en/questionnaire/result.html). Please refer to the views and opinions of environmental experts.
At the Foundation, we sincerely hope that we can contribute to the resolution of environmental problems using this questionnaire to raising environmental interest among as many people as possible, not limited to environmental experts.
Once again, we extend our deepest gratitude to the respondents for taking the time to share their valuable opinions and experience through the survey. In closing, we appeal to readers of this report for advice on how to enhance the survey in the coming years.
Thanks to the cooperation of the participants, we received 1,866 responses to the questionnaire this year. (2,152 responses in 2017) We would like to express our gratitude for the opportunity to report once again this year on an environmental survey covering most regions of the world.
This year, the average time on the Environmental Doomsday Clock was 9:47, representing the most urgent sense of crisis since the survey began. It is noteworthy that for the first time respondents in their 20s and 30s moved the clock forward further than all age groups for the first time. Influenced perhaps by numerous respondents from China, these results show an increasing and changing awareness of the environmental crisis.
As in the previous fiscal year, we will post comments from respondents in each country on the website of the Asahi Glass Foundation (http://www.af-info.or.jp/en/questionnaire/result.html). Please refer to the views and opinions of environmental experts.
At the Foundation, we sincerely hope that we can contribute to the resolution of environmental problems using this questionnaire to raising environmental interest among as many people as possible, not limited to environmental experts.
Once again, we extend our deepest gratitude to the respondents for taking the time to share their valuable opinions and experience through the survey. In closing, we appeal to readers of this report for advice on how to enhance the survey in the coming years.
The Asahi Glass Foundation
September 2018
September 2018