ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN LEAD TO ACTION ON GLOBAL WARMING

This article demonstrates that public environmental concern has increased dramatically in recent years, and asks whether that increased concern will, or could be directed to, advance policies on global climate change. For comparison, public responses to several other environmental problems are reviewed, in an attempt to explain why public concerns have no effect in some cases and quite dramatic effects in others. Most of the article covers

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