Global Warming on Free Republic
Posted on 07/22/2012 8:15:01 AM PDT by Darren McCarty
A new study by a University of Michigan professor shows Americans between the ages of 32 and 52 - a group referred to as Generation X - have said they don’t really care when it comes to matters of climate change and the environment.
Jon D. Miller directs the Longitudinal Study of American Youth at the U-M Institute for Social Research and released a quarterly report this week. The research has been funded by the National Science Foundation since 1986.
Generation X, which consists of people born between the years of the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, apparently cares much less about climate change issues than researchers anticipated.
When polled on issues like use of fossil fuels, the state of global warming and alternative energy sources, Generation X-ers responded with middle-of-the-road answers that showed they neither strongly agreed nor strongly disagreed.
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“These results are not comforting to those of us who worry about the health of American democracy in the 21st century,” Miller wrote in the report.
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Global Warming on Free Republic
I don’t know about the ones born after 1975, but people who were coming of age around the 1970’s probably remember the scares about global cooling. Many of us have developed some skepticism about anyone predicting the end of the world
Thank you. You beat me to it.
Yeah, and the BIG hole in the ozone layer... remember, everyone was going to be sunburned? Animals would die from it - plants would burn up... Liberals and their unending scare tactics.
...they don't really care when it comes to matters of climate change and the environment. Jon D. Miller directs the Longitudinal Study of American Youth at the U-M Institute for Social Research... Generation X-ers responded with middle-of-the-road answers that showed they neither strongly agreed nor strongly disagreed... "These results are not comforting to those of us who worry about the health of American democracy in the 21st century," Miller wrote in the report.What a lying pile he is.
I caught that too. I was thinking ‘Wow, I’m 55. I didn’t know that I was so close to being a generation Xer’.>>>>>>>>>>
I’m 49 and am so very happy to be finally counted as a gen x-er and not included in the hated boomer demographic which I never identified with.
Yeah, and the BIG hole in the ozone layer... remember, everyone was going to be sunburned? Animals would die from it - plants would burn up... Liberals and their unending scare tactics.>>>>>>>>
Ironically there was a study not too long ago that showed that the increase in Co2 was helping to close the ozone hole over the antarctic.
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