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Politics

Public Opinion

By Matthew Yglesias
October 27, 2007
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Thirty one percent of Americans say recycling is one of the most important things they can do to avoid catastrophic climate change. Four percent cite reduced consumption of fossil fuels. This kind of thing should, I think, indicate that public opinion on different policy options is probably highly malleable (in both good and bad ways) since people obviously don't understand this issue at all.