Is there a link between age and environmental concern?
I’ve noticed that different age groups have very different environmental concerns. My husbands dear parents are in their 70’s (age group E on your chart). His Dad was a wee child at the end of the Great Depression. With my In-Laws generation I’ve noticed they have the mentality of throw nothing that might be useful away, patch and repair, re-use, re-use, re-use! Dear Father-in-Law is the REAL MacGyver! He can keep a 1920’s tracter running with a rubber band, and a wad a chewing gum. When they built their 3600 sq ft home themselves in the 1970’s, they paid it off it two years, they are such a thrifty couple! Yet they were the generation that was going to be saved by chemicals, and control the weather, the soil, the plants, the insects, and mother nature by the use of chemicals. They think nothing of spraying weed killer, and using chemical fertilizers. But their work clothes have patches on top of patches, on top of patches…more patches than the original garment. My generation (I’m in
