The climate threat|Global challenges

Europe's young positive towards fewer children and a car-free life  

Europe's young people seem to be more willing to major lifestyle changes for the sake of the climate than the older generation. This is shown by a YouGov poll covering Sweden, Spain, Denmark, Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy.  

Young people tend to answer that they can imagine giving up their car, having fewer children and eating vegan. They may also consider paying more for air travel and shopping for used clothes.  

They are also more supportive than older people of more interventionist political governance, such as a ban on the sale of petrol and diesel cars.  

Older people, on the other hand, were more positive than younger people about minor lifestyle changes, such as ditching single-use plastic products. 

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Protest against forestry at the Swedish-Finnish border  

40 activists from Greenpeace are currently blocking the entrance to a newly opened paper pulp factory in Kemi near the Swedish border in Finland. 

- If we continue like this, we will soon have no real forests left and that is why I am here today to demand that this pulp factory does not import wood that comes from forests worthy of protection, says activist Christopher Söderstjerna to SVT Sápmi. During the year, 

forestry in northern Sweden received harsh criticism from the Sami National Confederation, which, according to SVT, considers it all too "aggressive".

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Hurricane season  

Hurricane approaches Mexico: "Potentially catastrophic"  

 

Storm Otis has been upgraded from a tropical storm to a "potentially catastrophic" hurricane on its way to the west coast of Mexico, the US hurricane center NHC announced, according to several news agencies.  

 

Otis is categorized as a five on the five-level hurricane scale and is expected to remain as such when it reaches the Mexican mainland. After that, however, it is expected to weaken due to the high terrain in southwestern Mexico, AP writes. 

 

Mexico's army has sent over 8,000 soldiers to the state of Guerrero ahead of the storm's arrival.