Global warming, poverty, and hunger – do we care about the global health issues of sustainability? [ Manuscript]

It is widely accepted in the scientific community, the international political community, and among the global “policy wonks” that issues of sustainability, including global warming, poverty and hunger are the major concerns for the 21 st Century. To translate those concerns into remedial action requires a broad base of popular support. There is survey evidence of significant popular concern; whether answering “yes” to a survey question translates into something more meaningful is harder to gauge. An alternative measure of commitment, or a genuine appreciation of the scale of the problem might be reflected in information seeking behaviour: on line searches. A review of global, google search trend data from January 2004 to February 2016 shows declining interest in major issues of global sustainability, and persistent and possibly growing fascination with celebrities, entertainment, and consumer goods. While not definitive, the trends should give the global health community and policy makers pause.<br><br>There are three files:<br>1. The manuscript as a PDF<br>2. The data set as an RData file, with each set of trends as a separate dataframe<br>3. The reproduction of the plot (100dpi)<br><br>

科学界、国际政治界以及全球“政策智囊”群体已普遍达成共识：可持续发展相关议题——涵盖全球变暖、贫困与饥饿——乃是21世纪的核心关切。将此类关切转化为补救性行动，需要广泛的民众支持基础。现有调查证据表明，民众对这些议题存在显著关切；但即便受访者对调查问题给出“是”的回应，其态度能否转化为更具实质意义的行动仍难以估量。另一种可用于衡量公众承诺程度，或是对问题规模真正认知的指标，或许可从信息搜索行为——即在线搜索——中得以体现。对2004年1月至2016年2月的全球谷歌（Google）搜索趋势数据的回顾分析显示，民众对全球可持续发展重大议题的兴趣呈下降趋势，而对名人、娱乐内容及消费品的关注度则持续走高，甚至可能愈发浓厚。尽管这一趋势并非定论，但其仍应促使全球卫生界与政策制定者深思。

本数据集包含3份文件：
1. 以PDF格式存储的研究手稿
2. 以RData格式存储的数据集，其中每组趋势数据均作为独立的数据框（dataframe）进行存储
3. 分辨率为100dpi的复刻绘图文件