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Ask people whether they’re personally willing to sacrifice Mother Earth for the sake of higher economic growth and they’ll be reluctant to answer affirmatively, whatever their true feelings on the matter.

A Harris Poll probably elicited franker responses by stating the question in less personal terms. It asked, “What would you say is more important to your region — protecting the environment or economic growth and development?” With the issue couched in these terms, growth/development trounced the environment by 63 percent to 27 percent, with the rest unsure.

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