For the first time in a decade, Americans support energy development over environmental protections
Reporting by Timothy Gardner; Editing by Lisa Shumaker
WASHINGTON
Tue Apr 6, 2010 11:20am EDT (Reuters) – For the first time in 10 years Americans are more likely to say the United States should give more priority to developing oil, natural gas and coal than to protecting the environment, according to a poll on Tuesday. The poll was conducted a few weeks before President Barack Obama announced he would open offshore oil drilling in some parts the U.S. East Coast, Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico. Half of 1,014 U.S. adults, who were surveyed March 4-7 by Gallup, said the country should give more priority to developing and producing the fossil fuels. Only 43 percent said protection of the environment should be given priority, even at the risk of limiting the amount of energy supplies. It was the first time in the 10 years that Gallup has been asking the question that energy production was favored over environment. …
Public supports energy over environment: poll
Americans are unlearned and uninformed on how bad the environment has been effected, especially "offshore" where we have exported all of our jobs, productions and wastes.
They're also not willing to give up on the status-quo of energy intensive living and the connedsumerism lifestyle, to them, this is "sacred", and to hell with the environment.
Collapse of the biosphere is happening rapidly all over the world and the level of ignorance on this issue is just as bad (collapse of intelligence).
This is why I believe that we will fail to preserve anything for very long, we simply refuse to believe the evidence, or educate ourselves on how severe it already is, or consider the deep and lasting impacts of the self-destructive behavior we exhibit. ~Survival Acres~