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 ...
Apparently the “highly concerned” cluster cannot make a connection between their own behavior and their environment.
Conservatives also pick up the litter after their rallies.
In a recent election, our local ‘unbiased’ (cough) newspaper compared two voters, a Republican who owned a Hummer and a Democrat who owned a Prius. When I wrote a letter to them about myself who put far more miles on a bicycle than his compact car in the year, (surprise) it was not published.
Oftentimes, Eco(logy) Green really means Eco (nomy) Green, and many of us are HUGE on not wasting.
It’s ultimately why I hate all this Enviro stuff - the sanctimonious condescension that we don’t know how to save and “reuse”.
I’m mostly German. We love saving and re-using stuff. Use every part of the pig.
Ecologists mean you carry your recycle bags around the supermarket so everyone can know you care.
That’s pretty much it. Liberals are fundamentally lazy people. They like the idea of conservation so long as it’s imposed by government force. If left to their own devices, they’re as careless and wasteful as they come.
We call it being frugal and not wasteful. Then they changed the wording that virtue signals for them.
You nailed it. Liberals believe government should take care of everything, regardless of the cost.
You should have pointed out that a Hummer has a lower total carbon footprint than does a Prius.
no real surprise, it’s always “do as i say, not as i do” with leftists ...
conservatives by nature on the other hand conserve things ...
“Apparently the “highly concerned” cluster cannot make a connection between their own behavior and their environment.”
indeed. but they have no problem making the connection with OTHER PEOPLE!
“I’m mostly German. We love saving and re-using stuff.”
well, i’m Scots-Irish, and you know what they say about Scots!
And don’t forget that mean heartless conservatives give more to charity than do caring liberals.
I’ve planted thousands of native or endangered plants and trees on my property that I buy from either the state DNR or private companies.
Environmentalists are good for one thing - squeezing the crap out of them to fertilize the earth.
“So while they may assert disbelief in order to stave off coercive (in their view) actions by the government, many could take pride in doing what they can do on a personal basis,”
But coercion is the entire point of this exercise.
The “highly concerned” lot are virtue-signaling hypocrites.
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