Most of Us Ready to Sacrifice: Climate Chage


	Most of Us Ready to Sacrifice: Climate Chage

abailart

11-5-2007 4:01 AM

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climate change, personal responsibility

abailart says:

This surprises and encourages me. Pessimist that I am I assumed that most people were only to ready to blame the world's ills on someone else.

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<FONT size="2">Three quarters would back energy taxes if the cash was used to find new sources of energy, or boost efficiency.</FONT></P></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/1/hi/world/7075759.stm">According to the survey, 83% of respondents throughout the world agree that individuals will definitely or probably have to make lifestyle changes to reduce the amount of climate-changing gases they produce.</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/1/hi/world/7075759.stm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.bbc.co.uk/img/5F31BA6E-77ED-4684-BE61-4AB18235E9DD" alt="Graphs showing how many people think lifestyles need to change, and how many people think energy costs will have to increase" /></div></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/1/hi/world/7075759.stm"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD class="sibtbg"><DIV class="sih">
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