Maybe it was sudden, or gradual. But ultimately you realized that in order to help slow global warming, you needed to change how you eat, travel, work or live.
Does this sound familiar? If so, we want to hear more. If not, we’d like to hear what’s prevented you from making a change. Click here to share your experience with Marketplace and our sister documentary program, American RadioWorks.
American RadioWorks is examining climate change solutions, prominent among them changing habits of consumption, travel or energy usage that leads to shrinking carbon footprints. Marketplace is asking whether or not individuals can really make an impact on climate change.
Efforts to change behavior en masse are running up against an erosion in the belief that global warming is a problem worth urgent attention. Global warming ranked last in Americans’ priorities for 2010, according to a January 25th report from The Pew Research Center for People and the Press. And that’s on top of a Yale report’s findings (PDF) which revealed a 14% decline over the last two years in the number of Americans who believe global warming is happening.
Help us gather experiences and stories to better understand what triggers people to make changes to lifestyle and habits. And thanks.
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