The bar chart compares percentages of youngsters who chose four different methods to tackle a particular environmental issue in four sovereign countries in the year 2008.
It is evident that changing lifestyle was one of the most popular methods for the Portuguese youth to mitigate the global warming issue, whereas tackling this problem through government regulations was the least favored measure among the Dutch young people.
About 43% Portuguese youngsters chose ‘Life style’ to address the problem, which made up the largest proportion in the listed methods, closely followed by ‘Government regulations’ and ‘Advanced technology’, which were both at 40%. Moreover, 30% Polish youth chose to tackle the issue by using ‘Government regulations’, which was the most popular method in the particular people with this nationality.
Interestingly, the most popular method among Dutch young people when it came to tackling the environmental issue was through ‘Advanced technology’ and others, which were both 30%. Furthermore, the least favored method for Romanian young people was ‘None of these’, standing at approximately 15%, just closely followed by ‘Life style’, which was around 17%.