Sunday, June 28, 2009

Generational Divide on Climate Change

I hope to develop a story on a trend I've been hearing. There is a generational divide in people's beliefs on climate change. I heard Jeff (add last name), head of Environment at GE, mentoin how he generally finds people under the age of 25 as accepting of climate change. In other words, they doubt climate change less than older generations. He mentioned that employees 40 and up is the age group in which you find a lot of doubt and resistence to idea of change our behavior to counter climate change. The questioners. The recalcitrant individuals who'd rather spend time asking why and whether the data is really true and whether we're just exaggerating as opposed to taking action.

Week of 6/25/09

The House passed the first energy and climate bill end of day on Friday, June 25, 2009. In the same week that the U.S. experienced the unfortunate deaths of Michael Jackson and Farah Faucet (sp?), the House made a historic move on climate change legislation. You will hear my thoughts shortly on the bill and why I support a cap-and-trade bill over a carbon tax.