Cambio climático y Covid-19, ¿Cuál nos preocupa más?

Abstract

Abstract: Climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic have been highlighted as the most influential problems in society, due to their impact on the different economic, productive and health sectors. The present work focuses on knowing which of these two problems worries the population of the city of Loja the most, given that according to the hypothesis of the finite reserve of concerns it is impossible to focus on more than one concern at a time, a situation that has repercussions on personal actions. In addition, to know which is the tendency of climate action that the population has. The data were obtained through a structured questionnaire applied by means of simple random sampling. The results indicate that although there is no marked tendency regarding the problems that most concern the population, revealing a tendency to worry about economic and environmental problems, 2 leaving Covid-19 and climate change in second place. Thus, it is not possible to corroborate whether the precepts of the hypothesis of the infinite reserve of concerns are fulfilled. Keywords: Climate change, Finite pool of worries , Covid-19.