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Comment comment by Anonymous on 03 April 2007

I suppose you could also argue that the ideas behind the carbon offset are pretty sophisticated and they could be over the head of the average Joe. After all, one in five American adults think the sun revolves around the Earth. Fewer than 1/3 can identify DNA as key to heredity. Only about 10% know what radiation is. The average Joe lacks a lot of the background knowledge that's needed to really evaluate an idea like carbon offsets.

Do you have link for these statistics. They seem so unbelievable, but I fear they might actually be true...

Thanks.

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RE: Statistics by scottb :: NR7

Do you have link for these statistics. They seem so unbelievable, but I fear they might actually be true...

I grabbed 'em from here.

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