Cap and Trade Is Not About Kangols and New Eras

But apparently most folks can't tell you what cap and trade is or even what it might be about. In a recent Rasmussen poll fewer respondents correctly identified cap and trade as dealing with the environment (24%) than thought cap and trade dealt with wall street (29%), or just straight up admitted that they didn't know (30%).

Matt Yglesias made a graph:Considering that cap and trade is the major step that we're planning on using to save the planet this is disturbing news. I'm not sure where the blame on this really lies but its probably safe to spread it around a bit. Lots of people think that the environment needs saving but don't know or care about what that entails, politicians aren't out there explaining things to the people (Al Gore made a great dent in educating the public about global warming with An Inconvient Truth but maybe we need a follow up tour) and reporters and news sources certainly don't do a good job of talking about this stuff, they'd much rather frame things as a he said she said ongoing debate over climate change rather than losing that story and explaining what the plan is.

Yuck all over.

(via EK)