Kentuckians and the Environment: We're Smarter Than Our "Leaders"
Via Page One Kentucky, a survey of Kentuckians on environmental issues has mostly good news.
Every half decade the Kentucky Environmental Education Council and the University of Kentucky Survey Research Center release a survey of random Kentuckians regarding environmental knowledge, attitudes and self-reported behaviors. The council uses the survey to measure progress on the environmental front and to develop programs in areas where growth and need for education are necessary.
Let’s take a look at some of the highlights:
- Top three environmental problems in Kentucky identified in the 2009 survey: water pollution (26%), air pollution (22%) and mountaintop removal (14%).
- “What is the best definition of biodiversity?” The many different kinds of plants and animals (46%), the many differing opinions on environmental issues (34%) and the man kinds of disease that affect humans (20%).
- Nearly 100% of individuals surveyed believe environmental education should be taught in schools
Read the whole survey here.
One of the discouraging results was that only one percent of Kentuckians ranked global warming as the most important environmental problem in Kentucky. But that should be understandable in people who know that the acid runoff poisoning their water and the explosions fracturing their house foundations are caused by mountaintop removal coal mining, not global warming.
Yet 78 percent agree that global climate change is caused by human behavior, and 54 percent say the best strategy for addressing the energy crisis is developing alternative energy sources such as solar and wind power.
Hey, Big Coal: Kentuckians are just not that into you.
And hey, Kentucky elected officials: if you don't stop ignoring voters in order to obey your corporate coal masters, next election those voters aren't going to be that into you, either.
Cross-posted at They Gave Us A Republic ....
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2 comments:
Good Christ, what is it gonna TAKE!
How do we convince these bought and paid for politicians that yes, no matter how much their corporate masters donate, they CAN be beaten in an election?
Oh I know - we vote against them!
We pay attention to their actions, and when it is undeniably clear that they have knuckled under to the corporate interests, then we vote against them. No matter how many TV commercials, and full-page newspaper ads, and radio ads they buy with corporate money, we are going to vote them out!
That requires paying attention. Are you up to it, Kentuckians? Americans? Are you able to take back your country and your state from the people whose only motivation is money and more money - some of which may even be yours?
Or are you just gonna sit in your easy chair, and bitch about how awful everything is?
I for one have had it up to HERE. Come pick a fight with me, OK?
Why don't you pick the fight?
If those who want change pick the fight, change has the initiative. The down side is that those favoring change now have to justify the decision.
And that's when the corps' cops move-in and decimate your program.
Liberals, etc ... need to learn how to do this. In a playground fight pop a lib in the nose and it loses all the fight that was in it.
So --- if you wish to pick a fight --- find yourself a knight (errant) to organize your conflict.
Or stay home and whine - like usual.
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