Many young people fear climate change and poverty, as much as they fear terrorism

Mar 31, 2017

An enormous iceberg (R) breaks off the Knox Coast in the Australian Antarctic Territory, January 11, 2008. Australia's CSIRO's atmospheric research unit has found the world is warming faster than predicted by the United Nations' top climate change body, with harmful emissions exceeding worst-case estimates. Picture taken January 11, 2008. REUTERS/Torsten Blackwood/Pool (ANTARCTICA) - RTR1X0U1

Exploring the issues that young people in Europe fear the most. Image: REUTERS/Torsten Blackwood

Rhian Barance

Social Science Researcher at the Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods (WISERD), Cardiff University

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