Results of a Rasmussen poll asking voters to identify (between the three options above) what cap and trade policy has to do with (correct answer: a regulation on greenhouse gas emissions causing global warming, aka "The environment"). Graphic via Andrew Sullivan.
Some of us in the soil carbon movement have been saying that climate change is not an environmental issue, in the traditional framing. We don't even yet have a frame for it. The problem with carbon is that it's NOT a problem, it's a cycle, mainly biological.
The poll may be another indication that the environmental framing won't work.
That global warming is an "environmental problem" may be true, depending on who is surrounding you. But it's probably useless.
Posted by: Peter Donovan at May 13, 2009 2:39 PM