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teens and conservation trends
which of the following statements supports the idea that when youths are driven by material goods, they do not believe that natural
resources will become scarce?
an inconvenient truth, al gore's movie on global warming is now the
fourth largest-grossing documentary of all time. but apparently, it isn't
young adults who are paying the price of the ticket or more important,
taking the truth about the environment to heart
a through volunteering, teenagers could be taught to put a greater value in people than in things
b. more and more teenagers want the latest trendiest cell phone, computer, video game console, or sneakers.
c 40% of working high school students in the united states believe that there is no shortage of oil
d. conservation can also be taught at home from the time teenagers are children
in fact, the inconvenient truth today is that youths willingness to
conserve gas, heat and energy has taken a steep plunge since the 1980s
according to data from monitoring the future, a federally funded national
survey on trends in the attitudes values and behavior of high school
seniors since 1976, there has been a clear decline in conservation behavior
among 18 year olds over the past 27 years, although we are not yet sure
whether these attitudes follow youths into adulthood. one of every teen
teens participates in conservation compare that to one in five during the
1970s. this decine interestingly, coupled with a rise in materialistic
values
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in fact, trends in materialism and conservation are highly related. at
times when youth place higher value on material goods, they are also
much less likely to say they would conserve resources. and when youths
are more man y driven, they are also less likely to believe that natural
resources will become scarce in the future. since the 1990s, the trends in
materiam seem to have topped out at a steady high level the wingness