Oklahoma Kindergartners write book -- 'Our Class Is Going Green'

The greenest generation? | csmonitor.com

How did this happen? Most poll results I’ve looked at suggest that, the younger you are, the more receptive of environmental messages you’re likely to be. For instance, in May, a Pew research survey found that 54 percent of Americans under age 30 believe in manmade global warming, compared with only 37 percent of those ages 65 and older.

Another example: A 2007 survey conducted by Yale’s Center for Environmental Law and Policy asked whether “America is in as much danger from environmental hazards as it is from terrorists.” Some 69 percent of respondents aged 18-44 agreed with the statement, compared with only 54 percent of those 65 and older.

These surveys don’t look at those under 18, but there’s no evidence that the trends reverse themselves at younger ages. Indeed, anecdotal evidence suggests the opposite. After all, at the heart of environmentalism are simple rules of fairness – “clean up your own mess,” “don’t take so much for yourself so that others get nothing” – that are easily grasped (if not always followed) by schoolchildren. The rules only seem more complex in a world of electricity bills, shiny gadgets, and corporate-funded think tanks.

I'm amused by the implication that if you don't buy into Gore's scam, it follows that you must be pro-pollution, pro-waste, pro-greed, etc.

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | To what climate are we adapting?

Moves to adapt our society for a changing climate may have focused rather too much on long-term scenarios and not enough on how to cope with weather and short-term variability, argues Mike Hulme. He says the past two British summers show the dangers of this overemphasis on laudable long-sightedness.