[MCN] Climate: Women more likely to take responsibility

[Lance Olsen]

Closing paragraph: "Being a woman seems to correlate with a greater 
personal investment in addressing climate change. While globally, 67 
percent feel people we will have to make major lifestyle changes to 
reduce the effects of global climate change, when that figure is 
broken down by gender, women consistently agreed with that sentiment 
at higher rates than men. In the U.S., for example, 75 percent of 
women agreed with the statement, 'To reduce the effects of global 
climate change, people will have to make major changes in the way 
they live. Among U.S. men, agreement was 57 percent."

http://www.newsweek.com/how-world-feels-about-climate-change-charts-391223
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"Conservationists are unquestionably useful people. And among the 
many useful services that they have rendered has been that of 
dramatizing the vast appetite the United States has developed for 
materials of all kinds."

"But what of the appetite itself? Surely this is the ultimate source 
of the problem. If it continues its geometric course, will it not one 
day have to be restrained? Yet in the literature of the resource 
problem this is the forbidden question. Over it hangs a nearly total 
silence. It is as though, in the discussion of the chance for 
avoiding automobile accidents, we agree not to make any mention of 
speed!"

John K. Galbraith. "How much should a country consume?"
In Jarrett, Henry (editor), Perspectives on Conservation.
John Hopkins Press. 1958
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