KQED Climate Watch Survey

PAY ATTENTION:

If you would like to quiz yourself and find out what KQED (a public media group that serves Northern California - it is similar to NPR), thinks your attitude towards global climate change is, then use the following address to go to their website: uw.kqed.org/climatesurvey/

TAKE ACTION!
Based on my answers to the quiz, the results I received were that I am alarmed about global climate change and I need to take action. They can be found here:

http://uw.kqed.org/climatesurvey/index-kqed.php

In the Original Six Americas Study, over half of the respondents were at least cautious in regard to global climate change.

18% alarmed
33% concerned
19% cautious
12% disengaged
11% doubtful
7% dismissive

These numbers are outrageous. They should be skewed a lot more towards "Alarmed." This is where marketing can have a significant impact - maybe the reason people are not so alarmed is because they don't really know how they are affecting the planet.

**Side note**
I went to visit one of my best friends from High School in Dayton, Tennessee in the beginning of September. For those of you who are familiar with TN, just like any state or territory, there are parts that are very urban and parts that are very rural, and parts that are in between. Dayton, TN falls on the "more rural" spectrum. One night, we were driving to Chattanooga to have a fun karaoke singing night at a place called Sing it or Wing it. (I am hoping I don't get my door banged down by cops after admitting this, but we were drinking beers in the car on the drive down.) It is me, my friend from high school, and three of her other friends. When they finished their beers, they just rolled down the window and threw them out, laughing once they heard the shattering of glass on the freeway. I couldn't believe what I was seeing... but I just sat there in my flabbergasted state and let them continue. My friend turned to me and said, "Wow, this must be killing you," and responded assuring her that it was yet I still continued to sit there in my defeated silence.

Quite recently, I have been feeling that I am at a pivotal moment in my life where I have strong ideas about what I want to pursue and things I want to accomplish. Helping to make the planet more sustainable and helping people be more knowledgeable about their actions is VERY high on my list. THIS IS AN IMPORTANT ISSUE AND PEOPLE NEED TO PAY ATTENTION TO IT.