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23. Climate Change, The Media, and Public Responses
Pages 333-336

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... felt that it was a very serious problem. In the public's volunteered list of environmental concerns solicited in 1983, 1984, and 1985, climate change, desertification, deforestation, and ozone depletion did not appear on the agenda of concerns.
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... concern, potential climate change scored well down on the public's list of top environmental concerns, which continued to be dominated by issues associated with hazardous wastes, toxic materials, nuclear accidents, pesticides, and air and water pollution. In 1987 and 1989, Cambridge Reports conducted national polls in the United States assessing the degree of threat to (1)
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... Will, as Gerard Blanc suggests, global change mobilize unconscious fears, producing l'angoise planetaria, and will it result in widespread and sustained public concern over this class of problems? The ambiguities surrounding climate change will be no less pronounced than the uncertainties.
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... E Waggoner, ea., climate change and U.S.
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