BC #003: What Has Nature Ever Done For Us? By Tony Juniper

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Does the majority actually associate Katrina/Super storms with man-made problems?
Well, considering over 30% of Americans don't even believe climate change is real, and only 42% believe it's caused mostly by human activity...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the ... -8-charts/


(Didn't get a chance to read the book, unfortunately. Insanely busy this month. I still have it for another week from the library so maybe I'll get to it. The discussion here makes it seem promising.)

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workathome wrote: Does the majority actually associate Katrina/Super storms with man-made problems?
There are actually people who believe it's caused by gay marriage. :(

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Spartan_Warrior wrote:
Does the majority actually associate Katrina/Super storms with man-made problems?
Well, considering over 30% of Americans don't even believe climate change is real, and only 42% believe it's caused mostly by human activity...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the ... -8-charts/


(Didn't get a chance to read the book, unfortunately. Insanely busy this month. I still have it for another week from the library so maybe I'll get to it. The discussion here makes it seem promising.)
The most recent surveys indicate that over 75-85% of Americans in virtually all states now believe that global warming has been taking place and 68-82% believe it has been caused by humans. 70%+ now believe that it is a serious problem for the US -- except in Idaho. However, less than 10% in most places see this as an important issue for them personally. See map links here for those and other questions:

http://democrats.energycommerce.house.g ... ey-finding

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Re: BC #003: What Has Nature Ever Done For Us? By Tony Junip

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Relates to the discussion (Q #4) ...

Archdruid's posts from the last two weeks: Toward a Green Future: The Culture of Biophobia
part 1 http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/ ... re-of.html
part 2 http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/ ... ge-of.html

I've been enjoying the direction of Greer's posts over the last couple of months.


Dmitry Orlov did a book review this week that was also related to this topic.
http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2013/11/c ... ously.html

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Very cool to see a link to thearchdruidreport on here, I've been reading through some of his posts lately.

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