Climate change: main cause

Afrobarometer Round 10 data indicate that nearly half of Namibian adults (47.5%) aware of climate change, which allowed them to respond to follow-up questions regarding its causes. Among informed respondents, 44% believed the primary cause of climate change is human activities such cutting down forest or burning fuel and other activities that pollute the atmosphere. 30% respondents that Natural weather pattern or natural resource processes 20% a cite "both from human activities and natural processes. However, it was observed that a majority of all adults (52.5 %) respond "not applicable" to this item showing they haven't heard enough to have an opinion demonstrating low climate-change literacy in Namibia. A recent Afrobarometer Dispatch reports that about two out of three Africans who are familiar with the phenomenon (65 %) think that climate change is due mainly to human activities.