ACVS Summary Report Now Available
The American Climate Values Survey provides critical insights on the attitudes and behaviors of Americans with respect to the climate crisis and the environment generally. Using a powerful psychographic framework, the ACVS provides actionable guidance on who to engage and messaging approaches to move America forward on a path towards sustainability and the new green economy. To succeed, we must Start With People and the ACVS shows the way.
A very interesting finding on page 17 of the October 2008 American Climate Values Survey that only 18 percent of survey respondents strongly believe that climate change is real, human-caused and harmful. It would be useful in the climate change discussion to address issues such as the dynamic nature of our planet and how it has built-in mechanisms to counter-act changes caused either by nature or mankind. Additionally, a whole separate discussion on the adaptability of mankind, without government intervention, to changes in climate would be useful. Finally, a discussion of the negative unintended consequences of forced government intervention into climate areas should be debated. I think the lack of serious discussion of these areas in the mainstream causes the above number to be low.
Posted by: Pittsburgher | October 28, 2008 at 09:09 AM