The line graph presents how people in four different countries considered the seriousness of some problems affecting the environment from the year of 2000 to 2010.
It is clear that water shortages, climate change, air pollution and automobile emissions received considerable attitudes over ten years. Shortage of fresh water had the highest figure, while the lowest figure belong to climate change. Generally, there were increases in three of the issues between 2006 and 2009.
In particular, data from this time period show that people’s sentiments toward air pollution and the scarcity of fresh water are rather similar. Air pollution peaked in 2000 at over 65%, then declined slightly after three years before sharply increasing in 2006. More specifically, in 2008, they all climbed at precisely the identical rate. There has been a recent decrease in air pollution. On the other hand, the freshwater deficit percentage decreased sharply from almost 68% in the third year to a sharp rise that practically stabilized at 68% in 2010.
When it comes to automobile emissions and climate change, different trends are visible over the same time frame. Additionally, both problems were gradually dismissed. However, there has been an upward trend between those but it has gone up in distinct ways. Between 2003 and 2009, automobile emissions were rather steady until finally declining significantly. Overshooting the previous level, climate change caused a minor increase between 2006 and 2009; however, by the conclusion of the period, it was still declining quickly.