Yesterday's post ended with the hope that experts’ reports on climate change, together with more and more peoples’ direct experience with its effects though more and more dramatic weather patterns, might finally affect public opinion and so push political decision-makers towards real action.
After writing that, I went looking to see what survey data might show. I’ll keep looking, but the first stuff I found wasn’t exactly reassuring. This Gallup poll, published March 18, 2014, reports that fewer people now than in 2001 think human actions are responsible for changes in the environment. The whole timeline deserves attention, but this is still the basic finding. Depressing.
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