For my survey, I asked some friends who are all in college the questions relating to how willing they are to change their lives to better suit the environment. The questions I asked where would you be willing to only eat food that comes from a 100 mile wide area, would you be willing to spend more on quality goods that will last longer and drastically cut back on items frequently disposed, and would you be be willing to devote time to recycle and compost?
The results that same back where pretty equal for all question with 7 out of the 10 people answering yes on the first two questions and 5 answering yes on the last one. I believe this correlation has to do with the first two questions regarding ways where ones life would stay relatively similar and they would still be able to continue a consumer lifestyle. The last question actually asks or work to be put into it so that is why it was less favorable with the people.
Sam's topic for his paper is an interesting approach to the many conservation and environmental movements that are currently popular in society. It seems like there is a new "fad" to save the Earth being discussed every day but when it comes to people actually committing to follow the trend and live a more eco-friendly lifestyle, few people are eager to change. So many people have focused on trying to save the Earth from environmental disaster and abuse and so many resources have been put into creative ideas and attempts to get the community on the same page yet nothing has changed drastically for the better. Sam's survey seems to be getting positive feedback and the questions are generating correlating responses, which should help Sam to further prove his social theory.
ReplyDeleteI think Sam has a good idea on how to get people's honest answers by asking questions that require no dramatic change and one that does. I do not know what other questions he has asked because there isn't a link to the survey, but the ones he has on here are very good. I think it would be interesting to see how many people already are making these efforts to change the environment, maybe he can make a post-survey.
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