Detecting a Hierarchy of Environmental Concerns

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A new Gallup poll offers a useful reminder that people care most about the environment when its degradation impinges directly on them.

Respondents were given a list of environmental problems and asked to cite the ones about which they worry “a great deal.” People were much more apt to worry so much about “pollution of drinking water” (53 percent said they do) and “pollution of rivers, lakes and reservoirs” (50 percent) than about “extinction of plant and animal species” (37 percent) or “the greenhouse effect or global warming” (37 percent apiece).

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