MIT Survey: Climate Change Tops Americans’ Environmental Concerns

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http://www.greencarcongress.com/2006/11/mit_survey_clim.html

According to a recent MIT survey, Americans now rank climate change as the country’s most pressing environmental problem—a substantive shift from three years ago, when they ranked climate change sixth out of 10 environmental concerns.

The environment continues to rank in the middle of the list of “most important issues facing the US today.” Among 10 environmental problems, almost half the respondents put global warming in first or second place. In 2003, the destruction of ecosystems, water pollution and toxic waste were far higher priorities.

Almost three-quarters of the respondents felt the government should do more to deal with global warming, and individuals were willing to spend their own money to help.

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The survey results were released 31 Oct. at the seventh annual Carbon Sequestration Forum, an international meeting held at MIT that focuses on methods of capturing and storing emissions of carbon dioxide.

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1. Once the 'PEOPLE' install a responsible government, THEN.......

'WE' can start taking care of the REALLY important issues like the degrading environmental health of our own planet that is in a shambles and falling apart!!