Reuters: People won't change lifestyle for planet: straw poll (of 30 Londoners)

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Thu Sep-03-09 09:07 AM
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Reuters: People won't change lifestyle for planet: straw poll (of 30 Londoners)

Edited on Thu Sep-03-09 09:12 AM by OKIsItJustMe

http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE58139L20090902

People won't change lifestyle for planet: straw poll

Wed Sep 2, 2009 8:42am EDT

By Nina Chestney

LONDON (Reuters) - People want to save the planet but are unwilling to make radical lifestyle changes like giving up air travel or red meat to reduce the effects of climate change, a straw poll by Reuters showed.

As leaders gear up for another round of climate change talks later this month in New York, motivating people to change their lifestyles will be crucial in ensuring cuts in planet-warming greenhouse gases, experts say.

Over 40 percent of Britain's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, the main greenhouse gas causing climate change, come from the energy we use at home and in traveling.

A straw poll of 15 British men and 15 British women between the ages of 25-75 in central London, showed all were willing to make small changes for the environment, such as recycling, but few would commit to more fundamental changes to behavior.

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Thu Sep-03-09 09:15 AM
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1. Don't they mean that they won't change lifestyles VOLUNTARILY?

The planet is in the process of forcing change on us all, whether we like it or not.

This does not surprise me in the least. Although I love my wife, she is a shining example of this ethos. It's much easier to believe the myth than the reality when faced with cognitive dissonance. To admit the influence that your lifestyle has on the world around you is a slippery slope, indeed. It forces you to question EVERYTHING, which does not always bring personal happiness nor does it necessarily endear you to those around you.

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Thu Sep-03-09 09:35 AM
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2. A poll of just 15 men and 15 women?

That isn't a poll, that's a speed dating group.

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Thu Sep-03-09 10:26 AM
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3. That made me laugh too - but not as much as your comment!

:toast:

30 people from the whole of Central London?

And they try to draw a conclusion from this?

:rofl:

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hunter

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Thu Sep-03-09 11:19 AM
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4. The planet doesn't care what we think. Change or die.

That's been the law since life began. There's nothing exceptional about us humans.

I'm rather fond of the world as our species found it. It's absolutely wretched that we've destroyed so much of that ecosystem. But eventually we will find a sustainable way to live or we will die. The way we are going now in a hundred thousand years there will be nothing left of our civilization but our trash and petrified bones. Pan vulgaris will be extinct and it will be nature's little joke that we ever called ourselves sapient.

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