How do felt impacts of Australian water scarcity impact climate change perceptions?
September 10, 2009 12:03 AM Subscribe
How do the FELT impacts of Australian water scarcity interact with perceptions of climate change (such as among different groups)?
The impacts of Australia's droughts and water scarcity are experienced visually (e.g. dead lawns) and in everyday practices (e.g. 4 minutes showers). How does this interact with perceptions of climate change, such as among different groups (e.g. typical suburban homeowners, or environmentalists)? Are they more in sync? Does it seem to shift climate change toward being an issue for the LOCAL right NOW? Does it encourage a more global/national identity? What has been the trend in the last decade, and how do we project it to evolve?
The impacts of Australia's droughts and water scarcity are experienced visually (e.g. dead lawns) and in everyday practices (e.g. 4 minutes showers). How does this interact with perceptions of climate change, such as among different groups (e.g. typical suburban homeowners, or environmentalists)? Are they more in sync? Does it seem to shift climate change toward being an issue for the LOCAL right NOW? Does it encourage a more global/national identity? What has been the trend in the last decade, and how do we project it to evolve?
This post was deleted for the following reason: Asking basically the same very-specific question twice without clearly acknowledging that that's happening and making it clear why kind of puts this in weird don't-do-that territory. -- cortex
What, didn't you like the answers you got when you asked this exact same question barely two months ago?
posted by obiwanwasabi at 2:13 AM on September 10, 2009
posted by obiwanwasabi at 2:13 AM on September 10, 2009
Agree with both. Having just done a lit. review on this very subject, wilful is right - there's no real hard data available (yet - there's a few university studies going on, and no doubt the pollsters are gathering data on this for gov't, the NFF, and other vested interests, but no published results so far). The closest you might come is the few year old study the Howard gov't (& News Ltd) used to stir things up over the state of the Murray-Darling system, but it was heavily focussed on the effects on water users, not public opinion / perceptions. You'll only get projections from real studies; anecdotal info will only get you conjectures.
And yes, nothing much has changed since you last asked the question...
posted by Pinback at 2:26 AM on September 10, 2009
And yes, nothing much has changed since you last asked the question...
posted by Pinback at 2:26 AM on September 10, 2009
(Actually, looking back over your post history, one could be excused for thinking you were one of the aforementioned pollsters, someone doing groundwork surveys for activist groups, or a journo looking for an angle. If not, I apologise in advance. If so, please don't do that here...)
posted by Pinback at 2:31 AM on September 10, 2009
posted by Pinback at 2:31 AM on September 10, 2009
You might get better answers if you explained why you keep returning to ask this same question. Are we writing your thesis for you? Helping you do your job? Contributing to a book you're hoping to sell? Whatever you're trying to do, you ought to know that polling Metafilter is not a substitute for conducting real research with proper sampling and sound methodology.
posted by embrangled at 4:01 AM on September 10, 2009
posted by embrangled at 4:01 AM on September 10, 2009
This thread is closed to new comments.
In my opinion, the ongoing drought did lead a little bit towards favouring Kevin07 pre-election, to show that Howard was yesterday's man, but beyond that? The various desal plants are getting built, the Murray is still fucked, nah i don't think it's meant much at all. We kinda expect droughts.
posted by wilful at 12:55 AM on September 10, 2009