Because the questions, at best, are oversimplified, and, at worst, intentionally framed to deliver a result. And the Keystone XL Tar Sands Oil Pipeline is a great example. #ddtb
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Do Americans Really Support Shipping Toxic Sludge (Strip-Mined from a Forest) Through a Major Aquifer For Export to China?
Framing Matters: How Polls and the Media Misrepresent the Keystone XL [Tar Sands] [Oil] Pipeline
by Liz Barrat-Brown, reposted from NRDC’s Switchboard
First of all, you won’t find tar sands mentioned in any of the polling. And in most polls, you won’t even find oil . It’s just the Keystone XL pipeline, no context, no mention of what it will carry, and certainly no mention of the environmental risks of building a massive pipeline to carry toxic tar sands sludge through the heartland of Americ…