Worries About Pollution (and Global Warming) Have Eased

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For years, many Americans’ default attitude about the natural environment has been that it is going from bad to worse. Gallup polling finds a significant decline in such sentiment, though respondents remain a bit more inclined to see the environment worsening than improving.

In 2006, 67 percent of Gallup respondents said the economy was getting worse, while 25 percent said it was getting better. In the new poll, fielded earlier this month, the “getting worse” vote was down to 48 percent, while the “getting better” tally had climbed to 41 percent.

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