Posted on 07/22/2012 8:15:01 AM PDT by Darren McCarty
A new study by a University of Michigan professor shows Americans between the ages of 32 and 52 - a group referred to as Generation X - have said they don’t really care when it comes to matters of climate change and the environment.
Jon D. Miller directs the Longitudinal Study of American Youth at the U-M Institute for Social Research and released a quarterly report this week. The research has been funded by the National Science Foundation since 1986.
Generation X, which consists of people born between the years of the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, apparently cares much less about climate change issues than researchers anticipated.
When polled on issues like use of fossil fuels, the state of global warming and alternative energy sources, Generation X-ers responded with middle-of-the-road answers that showed they neither strongly agreed nor strongly disagreed.
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“These results are not comforting to those of us who worry about the health of American democracy in the 21st century,” Miller wrote in the report.
(Excerpt) Read more at annarbor.com ...
that’s because we remember being scared about the 2nd ice age in the mid 70s
When people tell me the current hot dry summer is related to climate change, I tell the to learn a bit about the 1930s dust bowl years.
We’re still wondering what happened to acid rain.
Or 1988.
We, for the most part, aren’t morons.
People of that age are concerned with keeping or finding a job not some hoax.
hence my screen name
And thankfully we were too young to get suckered into the Marxist-driven flower power garbage.
The scientists and journalists who agitate in favor of Global Warming "science" might be more believable if they could do basic arithmetic. Age 32 would be born in 1979/1980, which only by a stretch qualifies as "the early 1980s", but those age 52 would be born in 1959/1960, which does not qualify as "the mid-1960s". I remember when real scientists considered math a basic tool of the trade and would be embarrassed by such an absurd error - and would verbally beat down a faker who couldn't do math.
So you either have to strongly agree or disagree on "climate change" to have a healthy democracy... WTF??
They’re afraid thst if we’re not buying the Socialism-driven global warming BS we might not buy the Socialism-driven Obama BS in November.
So not everyone is whipped into the frenzy they’ve promoted?
Well done. Beat me to it.
Well, Generation X is supposed to be cynical....
Mother told me that the 24th of June was the Hottest day that year and 10 days later when I was brought home the drought broke and it Rained, Rained, and Rained some more.
“These results are not comforting to those of us who worry about the health of American democracy in the 21st century,”
Au contraire, mon dork. I find them particularly encouraging. Unless, of course Democracy equals retarded sheep.
I always tell people that I can prove that mice can breathe under water for many days if they would kindly overlook how many fish I include in the sample.
***Or 1988.***
I still have two small books somewhere on 88 Reasons why the Rapture will occur in 1988.
They're really worried about not getting their way.
The globalist warming scam is old and boring. We need instant catastrophe for instant gratification, and we don’t want to be inconvenienced by it.
I have been to several conferences on AGW, mainly to get the scoop straight from the "experts", to see if I'm missing something (yep, that's the scientist in me, questioning my own knowledge and assumptions). They can't do the math and don't even understand what math it is that they can't do. These people inherently assume a linear model for a highly non-linear system, and they don't acknowledge that there is a fundamental problem with that assumption. As for their application of statistics, any professor who allowed a student to pass with the level of knowledge shown in the AGW community should be ashamed.
I didn't know we had or really needed one of those.
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I think you meant to respond to someone else, I didn’t say that
I’m not ambivalent to climate change at all.
I’m absolutely hostile to it, because I’m not a brain dead, indoctrinated moron.
Gen-Xers were heavily saturated as children with toy ads that never lived up to the hype. They clued in through practical experience that most media is designed to manipulate and sell something, thus their built in cynicism. The global “state-of-fear” warmists/alarmists have met the immovable object but they still have the twenty-somethings to keep working on.
I caught that too. I was thinking ‘Wow, I’m 55. I didn’t know that I was so close to being a generation Xer’.
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As time goes by, the terrible predictions we heard haven’t come true while the predictions become more dire, from flooded coastal real estate to the whole world will drown, from no more rain forest to all life on earth goes extinct.
I confronted one of my kids’ teachers, around Earth day with my oldest’s pre-K or Kindergarten. “Don’t you believe in climate change?”
“Sure. Spring, summer, winter, fall. And my daughter should never come home thinking she hurt the Earth or turning off all the lights and tripping because the planet will die if she doesn’t.”
That and Skylab was supposed to fall on our heads.
“Well, Generation X is supposed to be cynical....”
This Gen-Xer is. :) As mentioned earlier, a lot of us are old enough to have been taught how (as opposed to what) to think in school.
“...they don’t really care when it comes to matters of climate change and the environment.”
I do. I say, “screw all the Earth-worshippers and down with their damned unconstitutional laws”. I am SO sick of the constant condescending “green”(red)-peddling in EVERY single GD facet of society now.
“These results are not comforting to those of us who worry about the health of American democracy in the 21st century,”
What the hell does “being green(red)” have to do with “democracy”? (And, watch the misnomer buzzword “democracy” - you know you’re dealing with a closet commie.)
Your post is subject to many different interpretations.
They failed to brainwash me, they missed me because of just sheer luck on timing of when I was in school and the fact that I had ADhD, had they even tried I wasn’t paying attention.
I was done with education mostly by the time the DoEd fully cemented their manufacturing of little green commmie morons.
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I don’t know about the ones born after 1975, but people who were coming of age around the 1970’s probably remember the scares about global cooling. Many of us have developed some skepticism about anyone predicting the end of the world
Thank you. You beat me to it.
Yeah, and the BIG hole in the ozone layer... remember, everyone was going to be sunburned? Animals would die from it - plants would burn up... Liberals and their unending scare tactics.
...they don't really care when it comes to matters of climate change and the environment. Jon D. Miller directs the Longitudinal Study of American Youth at the U-M Institute for Social Research... Generation X-ers responded with middle-of-the-road answers that showed they neither strongly agreed nor strongly disagreed... "These results are not comforting to those of us who worry about the health of American democracy in the 21st century," Miller wrote in the report.What a lying pile he is.
I caught that too. I was thinking ‘Wow, I’m 55. I didn’t know that I was so close to being a generation Xer’.>>>>>>>>>>
I’m 49 and am so very happy to be finally counted as a gen x-er and not included in the hated boomer demographic which I never identified with.
Yeah, and the BIG hole in the ozone layer... remember, everyone was going to be sunburned? Animals would die from it - plants would burn up... Liberals and their unending scare tactics.>>>>>>>>
Ironically there was a study not too long ago that showed that the increase in Co2 was helping to close the ozone hole over the antarctic.
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