== Behold, The Lost Americans = By Mark Morford

[madokie]

============= MARK MORFORD'S NOTES & ERRATA =============



Who are the 13 percent of us who've never heard of global warming? And how can they be stopped?

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2007/02/23/notes022307.DTL&nl=fix

Behold, this bizarre demographic. Behold this odd and simmering and rather shockingly large hunk of the American population because chances are very good that at least some of them live right next door to you and breathe the same air and steal your parking spaces and often don't shower for six days at a stretch.

And maybe, just maybe you should be painfully, dreadfully aware of them because they are -- in their quiet, seemingly innocuous way -- far more deadly than any gay evangelical preacher or meth-lab gang-bangers and far more frightening than chicken-flavored soap bubbles for dogs and far more disconcerting than Britney Spears' barren skull.

They are, in short, the deeply uninformed. The inexplicably ignorant. The wondrously numb, the disconnected, the way, way out of touch. And they are, apparently, legion.

Let me be clear. I am not speaking merely about the ideologically lopsided and the intellectually misshapen. I am not speaking of, say, those armies of happy blank-eyed red-state 'Merkins who only read NASCAR-themed Harlequin romance novels and only drink Hooters-branded energy drinks (real products, both) and who like to bury their gay sex fantasies under mountains of happy homophobic sing-along God-fearin' megachurch denial. ...

Read the rest:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2007/02/23/notes022307.DTL&nl=fix

[LARED]

1. Can anyone do math anymore?

No, I am speaking of a group far more mysterious and far more bewildering. And they number, in fact, in the millions. About 4 million, to be exact, or fully 13 percent of the American population, if this recent, 46-nation poll is to be believed. Here is one way you shall know them: They have never heard of global warming.

There are about 300 million Americans. If 4 million fit this catogory that 1.3% not 13%

[ktlyon]

2. yes, I fear for those people too

I also fear those people. They drink and drive, leave loaded weapons laying about and they have no respect for others and come out swinging at the drop of beer.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. I love Mark, but this time he's wrong. 13% of 300 million Americans is more like 39 million!

"About 4 million, to be exact, or fully 13 percent of the American population, ....."