{"id":3919,"date":"2011-07-11T09:29:20","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T16:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unrbep.org\/?p=3919"},"modified":"2011-07-11T09:29:20","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T16:29:20","slug":"getting-americans-to-buy-in-to-global-warming-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/getting-americans-to-buy-in-to-global-warming-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Americans to Buy In to Global Warming, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Gallup, more than 45% of Americans think the threat of global warming has been seriously overblown. In a previous article<\/a>, I explored three reasons why so many of our fellow citizens continue to deny climate change and why this should concern the business community.\u00a0 To recap, they were:\u00a0 1) as a nation, we\u2019re not adept at examining scientific research, so it\u2019s difficult to prove the point with hard evidence; 2) our day-to-day experience makes it hard to comprehend the global scope of the problem; and 3) environmental messages often sound authoritarian, which doesn\u2019t work in the U.S. because we don\u2019t like being bossed around.<\/p>\n

The global warming debate has devolved into an emotional argument, not a logical one. Emotions are incredibly difficult to change because they don\u2019t respond to facts or logic. Once an argument becomes emotional, a person will defend his or her position to the bitter end, no matter what the evidence may be. Perhaps it\u2019s just part of our culture; we absolutely must prove we\u2019re right and we won\u2019t back down. So instead of explaining the threat of global warming for the umpteenth time, I\u2019ve stopped discussing it all together. Now I just change the subject.<\/p>\n

The United States uses more energy than any other country in the world. While we represent just over 4% of the global population, we\u2019re responsible for 25% of global energy consumption. The U.S. is the world\u2019s largest economy, so it may be easy to understand why we use more energy than other countries. Examine our per capita energy consumption, however, and it becomes obvious that something is wrong.<\/p>\n

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According to Gallup, more than 45% of Americans think the threat of global warming has been seriously overblown. In a previous article, I explored three reasons why so many of our fellow citizens continue to deny climate change and why this should concern the business community.\u00a0 To recap, they were:\u00a0 1) as a nation, we\u2019re … Continue reading Getting Americans to Buy In to Global Warming, Part II<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3920,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919\/revisions\/3920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}