The Environment Moves Onto the Back Burner

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As the economy worsens, evidence accumulates that Americans are willing to subordinate their environmentalist concern for now.

A CBS News/New York Times poll last month asked respondents to say which is more important to them: “stimulating the economy or protecting the environment?” The environment ran a distant second, with 33 percent choosing it as the higher priority, while 58 percent chose the economy. (The rest said “both” or declined to answer.) The poll’s Republicans backed econo-stimulus over eco-protection by 73 percent to 20 percent.

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