The Deteriorating Environment Is a Public Concern, but Americans Misunderstand Their Contribution to the Problem

Most people are “very” or “extremely” concerned about the state of the natural world, a new global public opinion survey shows.  Roughly 70 percent of 22,000 people polled online earlier this year agreed that human activities were pushing the Earth past “tipping points,” thresholds beyond which nature cannot recover, like loss of the Amazon rainforest … Continue reading The Deteriorating Environment Is a Public Concern, but Americans Misunderstand Their Contribution to the Problem