Abstract
Rapid increase of global population, extension of economic activities, and technological innovations bring about environmental disruption on an unprecedented global scale, and are breeding the problems which nobody have anticipated. Authors carried out the social surveys on three areas in Nagoya and on three areas in Tokyo. This paper aims to clarify the consciousness of inhabitants on energy conservation, resource preservation on their daily lives and environmental issues on a global scale. Authors obtained the results as follows: Over 80% people were interested in global warming effects. And it were about 60% people that understood details of them. 2) With respects to global environmental issues, a little people gave "negative" answers, simultaneously a little people gave "positive" ones, and the majority gave "slightly positive" ones. 3) People who thought that we ought to buy the secondary material products even at a higher prize were never small part of subjects. 4) As a results of analyzing the data to global warming effects from two-waved panels, the number of subjects who switched answers was not small, and the reliability were seemed to be low. 5) There were some questions that bear relations to subjects' ages and there were some questions that bear relations to subjects' school careers. 6) The questions related to subjects' ages involved in "saving" or "concern". The cause might be judged to be not "aging" but "cohort". If so, subjects' answers to these questions might shift negative-ward in the future. 7) The questions related to subjects' school career was ones requiring of "expert Knowledge" or "profound comprehension". It will be possible to improve their consciousness by intensifying environment education and furnishing appropriate information.
