This is just ridiculous:
With a fixed amount of money in their wallet, respondents had to “buy” either an old-school lightbulb or an efficient compact florescent bulb (CFL)…Both bulbs were labeled with basic hard data on their energy use, but without a translation of that into climate pros and cons. When the bulbs cost the same, and even when the CFL cost more, conservatives and liberals were equally likely to buy the efficient bulb. But slap a message on the CFL’s packaging that says “Protect the Environment,” and “we saw a significant drop-off in more politically moderates and conservatives choosing that option,” said study author Dena Gromet, a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.
In other words, if it would be good for the planet, conservatives want no part in it. That is just sick.
Because “liberals” love the environment and the conservative MO anymore is to piss liberals off.
QED
Morans someone’s name or just bad spelling?
Yeah, I think you might be painting with too broad a brush.
Why was this posted here? It has nothing to do with birding. Just the authors opinion on a political issue. Also offensive to a great majority of this nation. Also very presumptive since I am a conservative and buy CFL bulbs, even if they do include Mercury in them.
In other words, please stick to birds. Thanks. 😀
What an ignorant post! I am a “conservative” who is active in doing all that I can to help conservation. This liberal vs. conservative, we/they junk is ripping this country apart. I follow your blog because I love birds and find it a respite from all the politically charged media out there. You cherry pick some study that aligns with your paradigm and post it on a blog about birds?! I could make some generalizations about liberals based on your post, but I won’t because that would be ignorant of me. Some advice: Stick to birds!
This is extremely disappointing. Your broad generalization of the conservative attitudes toward the environment is not only ignorant, but responded to by the author of the original article.
“A study from Stanford psychologists released last December found that reframing environmental messaging in terms of preserving the “purity” of the natural world resonated morally with conservatives.”
Linking to the article we read, “In a new paper published this week in Psychological Science, researchers from the University of California—Berkeley and Stanford found that most environmental messaging uses frames that liberals tend to find more engaging.”
This is extremely disappointing. That you would take such a small study with what appears to be skewed results and then use a forum such as this, to push your own political views. Goodbye 10,000 birds.
This post is what is ridiculous.
Corey Finger is this for real? Or are you just trying to stir up controversy? If you really believe this drivel then you are pathetic. I look forward to seeing you in Tittusville, FLA at the Birding Festival to get your views on this. Randel
I am so amused by the responses to this post.
You are amused! Says a lot for your state of mind. What did you think people would think regarding this. As I said before is this for real? Do you really believe this? I am not really amused to read this. Randel Thomas
Randel, there are individual exceptions, as there are to every rule. But in the United States, where conservatism is essentially equivalent to the Republican Party, conservatives are anti-environment. I don’t think this is really a controversial statement. Just look at the record of the last Congress.
Yes & your current great leader is doing such a wonderful job for the environment, the country &the world. Randel Thomas
Tempted though I am otherwise, I’m not sure it was wise, sensible or entirely fair to use the title “Why are conservatives pathological jerks who hate the environment?” What I do think is a matter of concern is that, rightly or wrongly, American conservatives tend to see environmental concern as part of a leftists, liberal ‘plot’. Whether it’s global warming, fracking, federal conservation legislation, evolution, etc. conservatives as reflected by the Republican Party do seem to take-up an anti-environmentalist, often anti-science, stance. If you as a conservative don’t like it, then cleanse the party you tend to support of the dunderheads who appear to think otherwise.
It appears (based on the picture) that it takes one to know one. Obviously someone who is attempting to have a Moron ” Get a brain.” by mis-spelling her accusation must be one also. Eh?
1. This post is over two years old.
2. The author is male. (As is the person holding the sign in the picture.)
3. The photo is from a right-wing protest and is pretty famous as an example of idiocy from the right.
4. Conservatives are pathological jerks who hate the environment.