With gas prices all over the country dropping under $2 and the chill of winter setting in, people's passion to "go green" is cooling off.
According to an international poll "there is both growing public reluctance to make personal sacrifices and a
distinct lack of enthusiasm for the major international efforts now underway to battle climate change."
Maybe it's because people are realizing that our energy policies shouldn't be determined by universal councils or treaties. Or they realize that global warming has been perpetuated through fear tactics designed to monopolize the market by creating a whole new line of all-green products. Or that "the use of
ethanol as a subsititute for gasoline proved to be neither a sustainable nor an environmentally friendly option considering ecological footprint values, and both net energy and CO2 offset considerations seemed relatively unimportant compared to the ecological footprint." (Marcelo Dias de Oliveira)
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Less than half of those surveyed, or 47 per cent, said they were prepared to make personal lifestyle changes to reduce carbon emissions, down from 58 per cent last year."
It seems that when real problems occur (a struggling economy,
terrorist attacks), we are able to better discern what really demands our attention and concern.