i just got an email from the Australian Conservation Foundation: the leading environmental organisation in Australia. The email requested me to join a 'people who care about climate change' website where all you gotta do is just put in your address and email address and you show up on a google map of Australia where you represent one of the little dots that care. It costs nothing and takes about 2 minutes.
But heres the thing. I don't know how long this website has been in circulation, but given that the ACF is such an eminent foundation i expected the number of people who care (as featured on the map) would be fairly substantial. It was 8,704.
So lets do some mathematics.
(8704/20,000,000)*(100) = 0.04352%
Using the total population as 20 million (a conservative estimate by any means) 0.04% of Australians care about climate change, according to this website. thats less than 1%.
Whats even more alarming, is that as part of joining the website you tick a range of boxes indicating what you have done to minimise your carbon footprint (solar power, switching off powerpoints, offsetting car ommissions etc).
I ticked no boxes - and i'm supposed to be on the map as someone who cares.
what about the other 99.95648% of the population?
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