The United States of America is the nation least concerned about climate change according to a new survey.
The HSBC Climate Confidence Monitor polled consumers from 12 nations – Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Mexico, the UK and the USA – on their attitudes and behaviour regarding the threat of climate change.
For numerous questions in the survey, it was the citizens of the United States who emerged as the least worried or active when it came to tackling climate change.
For example, when participants were asked to rank how concerned they were about a list of world issues (global economic stability, terrorism, violence in everyday life, climate change, pandemic diseases, global poverty, social breakdown and natural disasters), just 6% of US consumers stipulated climate change as a top concern, the lowest percentage of any country. Only natural disasters ranked lower as a concern among US consumers at 3%. (See Concern about World Issues.)
Concern about World Issues
It was a similar story regarding commitment. The survey showed the US had the least number of people making a significant effort to help reduce climate change through how they live their life today (see Commitment by Country).
Commitment by Country
US consumers also had the lowest net rating for making low carbon choices to tackle climate change and reduce carbon footprints (see All Low-carbon Choices by Country).
All Low-carbon Choices by Country
Ahead of the crucial United Nations meeting in Copenhagen in December to try and reach a new international agreement on emissions reduction before the Kyoto Protocol expires, the survey asked the people of the world how much importance they placed on a global deal being achieved. Once again, the people of the US were revealed to be the least concerned, well behind all the other nations participating in the survey (see New Global Emissions Deal “Extremely Important” by Country).
New Global Emissions Deal "Extremely Important" by Country
For more on the HSBC Climate Confidence Monitor 2009 see http://www.hsbc.com/1/2/climateconfidencemonitor
We are also the largest educated country in the world as well. 97% of the causes of ‘global warming’ come from nature itself. Volcanoes, dead plant materials, animals, and other natural processes in nature. 3% is caused by human interaction with our environment. The earth has been cooling and heating itself to both extremes of the spectrum for MILLIONS of years and is going to continue to do so no matter what mankind tries to do to stop it. The ego and arrogance of the human race makes us think we can actually change this guaranteed course of nature. Keeping plastic out of the oceans is a real example of something mankind can change. Trying to stop the earth, sun, moon, solar system, galaxy, and universe from doing what it has been doing for billions of years, really? REALLY? Read a science book or two.
Carbon footprints, Cap and trade, Carbon offsets, falsely inflated statistics, all just ploys to tug at your heart strings, tax us, and get us all to give up our money in some way to combat something that cannot be prevented, period. Notice that this article only gives stats on who sees this as a priority and not stats on the reality of global warming causes and affects. Its like a chart for the most gullible countries in the world.
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but doesn’t get you anywhere.
“Global Warming” is like time, we would all like to stop it, but we will never be able to.
I’m proud to be an American and proud to see that we are least concerned, it’s better than being duped by the globalization of a world economy money grab!
Posted by Mitch
Link | November 6th, 2009 at 10:38 pm