Money saving climate poll

[watervole]

Some things in this world are reassuring. My favourite money-saving website - http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/ - recently ran a poll on taxation and the environment. Over 3000 people replied (polls of this nature are not going to be reliable, but at least everyone who replied is presumed to be someone with an interest in saving their own hard-earned cash)

This was the result:

What would you pay to turn the world green? It seems most of you are willing to pay up to save the planet, with 38% voting for an extra 4p on every pound of income tax to fight global warming.

Maybe there is hope for us all yet.

Comments

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

But the Times lead story (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2442948,00.html) yesterday was about how people say they're greener than the evidence suggests they are (the paper had a big chart spelling it all out, but they don't seem to have put that bit online. If you follow the links for Populus (http://www.populuslimited.com/), though, you can find the poll listing what people claimed they were doing.

[watervole.livejournal.com]

People always think they are greener than they actually are. There is a naive belief that if you use the local bottle bank then you are making a massive difference, even if you still holiday in Australia.

And people always fake good in polls on *any* subject.