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Most American’s couldn’t give a rats derriere about it

(Gallup) Gallup asked Americans to say how much they worry about each of seven environmental problems. All show significantly less worry today than in 2000, when worry was at or near its high point for each item. The declines in concern about drinking-water pollution and air pollution are the largest for the problems included in this year’s poll.

Only 30% care about globull warming “a great deal”. And other environmental issues are down

Gallup offers some explanations

There are two likely explanations for the declining concern. First, Americans are a bit more positive now than they have been in the past about the quality of the environment. Second, the economic downturn has forced Americans to focus more on bread-and-butter economic issues than quality-of-life issues. It may be no coincidence that environmental concern was highest in 2000, when the U.S. was enjoying one of the strongest economies in recent memory, and that environmental concern has reached new lows recently, after the worst financial downturn in the last 25 years.

The first is interesting, because people surely understand that the environmental conditions of clean air, water, and land are better than they have been in several hundred years. Unfortunately, another explanation for the dropping numbers goes back to globull warming, in that the Warmists have stuck every real environmental issue under the banner of anthropogenic global warming and continuously over-reached on their rhetoric, on beating their drums too hard, on condescending and abusing people, and have turned people’s cares away from those real issues. I’ve said before, this is one of the reasons I despise the AGW meme, because it does distract from those issues. For every one of those other issues, I do worry, maybe not always a great deal, but certainly more than a fair amount. There’s nothing wrong with being concerned. And Warmists have ruined these issues.