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Most of world ready to combat global warming. Someone tell the politicians global
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11-6-2007 8:16 AM
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A major change in how we tackle climate change is around the corner, if a new BBC Poll is on the money...
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/73d907ef-5b0c-4344-baef-3e2e60a501b1/23137A7D-A3C8-44D0-B20F-0F2505749FAD/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7075759.stm" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7075759.stm" style="font-size: 11px;">news.bbc.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7075759.stm"><TR><TD colspan="3"><DIV class="mxb"><DIV class="sh"> Most ready for 'green sacrifices' </DIV> </DIV> </TD></TR><TR><TD width="416" valign="top"><FONT size="2"> <TABLE width="203" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="right"><TBODY><TR><TD><DIV> <IMG width="203" vspace="0" hspace="0" height="152" border="0" alt="Earth from space" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44215000/jpg/_44215284_earth2_nasa203i.jpg" /> <DIV class="cap">The poll suggests the public are more ready than politicians</DIV> </DIV> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><B>Most people are ready to make personal sacrifices to address climate change, according to a BBC poll of 22,000 people in 21 countries.</B> </FONT><P> <FONT size="2">Four out of five people indicated they were prepared to change their lifestyle - even in the US and China, the world's two biggest emitters of carbon dioxide. </FONT></P><P> <FONT size="2">Opinion was split over tax rises on oil and coal - 44% against, 50% in favour. </FONT></P><P> <FONT size="2">Support would rise if the cash was used to boost efficiency and find new energy sources, the poll suggested.</FONT></P></TD></TR></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7075759.stm">the poll suggests that in many countries people are more willing than their governments to contemplate serious changes to their lifestyles to combat global warming.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7075759.stm"><FONT size="2">Overall, 83% of respondents throughout the world agreed that individuals would definitely or probably have to make lifestyle changes to reduce the amount of climate-changing gases they produce. </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; 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