Posted on 05/07/2018 4:01:35 PM PDT by BBell
Al Gore has been accused of hypocrisy for talking the talk on climate change despite burning through fossil fuels at a rapid clip, but it turns out he’s not alone.
A study by Cornell and the University of Michigan researchers found that those “highly concerned” about climate change were less likely to engage in recycling and other eco-friendly behaviors than global-warming skeptics.
Published in the April edition of the Journal of Environmental Psychology, the one-year study broke 600 participants into three groups based on their level of concern about climate change: “highly concerned,” “cautiously worried,” and “skeptical.”
The “highly concerned” cluster was “most supportive of government climate policies, but least likely to report individual-level actions, whereas the ‘Skeptical’ opposed policy solutions but were most likely to report engaging in individual-level pro-environmental behaviors,” the researchers concluded.
Conducting the study, entitled “Believing in climate change but not behaving sustainably,” were Cornell assistant professor Neil A. Lewis Jr. and University of Michigan researchers Michael P. Hall and Phoebe C. Ellsworth.
The skeptics were the more likely than the “highly concerned” to recycle, use public transportation and reusable shopping bags, and buy eco-friendly products.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
“Highly Concerned” means “It’s all YOUR FAULT!”
The “highly concerned” don’t give a rat’s hind end about the environment, they want money and control for themselves at the expense of everyone else’s liberty, earnings and property, and this hoax is just a tool.
I live well below my means. I could get a much bigger place but....why? I don’t need the extra space. It’d just be a waste. My car is a little BMW Z4 coupe. I don’t fly on private jets - in fact I hardly fly at all.
YET.....
because I don’t agree with their ridiculous Gaia Worshiping, the Envirosocialists think I’m da debil while somebody like Al Gore or Leo Dicaprio or James Cameron any of a number of other Hollywood Hypocrites are supposedly virtuous even though they burn vastly more energy than I do because they say the supposedly “right” things even though they don’t come close to living up to it. How ridiculous is that?
Of course.
“It may be some time yet before they become “self-aware.” “
maybe they need to spend a few more years in WestWorld before they’re ready ...
>>Apparently the “highly concerned” cluster cannot make a connection between their own behavior and their environment.<<
Th actions of the few Ruling Elite do not affect anything. It is he hoi palloi which must be controlled. (see liberalism 101 for more).
>>It may be some time yet before they become “self-aware.” <<
I believe the term which you seek is “woke.”
IOW, those of us who aren’t activist nut cases do what we can to protect the environment while the nut cases crap all over it and demand everyone else does something....
btt
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