Need to do some quick research for terminology and naming for a future project (you can probably guess the general topic by my questions).
Part 1: Without doing a web search, do you know what Kessler Syndrome is?
Here's a different way of summarizing these (very unscientific, very biased, but still super interesting) poll results. Name recognition of selected environment-related terms:
Recognize "Kessler Syndrome"?
40% (over 30)
34% (under 30)
Recognize "Exxon Valdez"?
86% (over 30)
25% (under 30)
Recognize "Montreal Protocol"?
33% (over 30)
29% (under 30)
Exxon Valdez is the "winner" for name recognition (at least among the older demographic). Interesting!!
.. but not surprisin', right love .. ⁉️👌
@sundogplanets
I'm confused now. How did you get the ages of the participants?
EDIT: Nevermind. For some reason, my app never showed the actual polls, just the questions.
The results track with my expectations...
The Exxon Valdez incident happened back when things were in the mainstream news for more than 24hrs.
Kessler Syndrome is probably well-known only to astronomy and sci-fi buffs.
Montreal Protocol must not have been mentioned by name much -- though everyone from that era would know hair spray and refrigerants had to change to spare the ozone layer.
@sundogplanets I wonder if Deepwater Horizon is more recognizable.
Around the time of the Deepwater Horizon spill I did a “back of the envelope” calculation going back far enough to include the Exxon Valdez, and found that in that 21-year period we spilled about ½ a percent of the amount of oil we burn as intended in a single day.
In 21 years we spilled 0.005 times what we burn in one day.
We’re burning a completely ridiculous amount of oil
@sundogplanets putting it the other way ‘round:
Every day in the U.S. we burn 2000 times as much oil as was spilled by the Deepwater Horizon plus the Exxon Valdez plus all the smaller spills in between.
21 years worth of spills, 2000 times over, is what we burn in 1 day
Apparently I'm one of the few people under 30 following you. XD
At around 2.5 × 30, I find that an interesting dividing point. In the distant past. 😀
Exxon Valdez was the only one of the three I knew by name, largely due to the ship having been placed prominently in the Scorpions' Wind of Change -music video.
Might have known it otherwise as well, but vaguely enough that I wouldn't have dared to claim "yes". As it is, the event was out of focus, and before writing this post I would have placed it as having happened around 1995.
(Edit: after googling, I would have known the others by another name. I'm 40, btw.)
@dummzeuch @sundogplanets As an older person, I'd guess that's because old people are more likely to have been alive when they happened, and so are able to remember them, while youngsters weren't, but don't like to admit it for fear of hurting our feelings.
That's just a guess, though, and perhaps a "can't remember" option would have made it a little clearer.
@sundogplanets I felt especially old because I answered Yes on the only one of the three where age groups gave different results, and No on the other two.
After looking up the other two, I don't feel that bad, because one feels like a specialist topic and the other one, while being a general news topic that I'm definitely aware of, wasn't publicized too much with that name where I'm from.
@sundogplanets Yeah, it's interesting, because I kind of know all of them, but still wasn't able to tell or recall what these names mean (except the Exxon Valdez). I also totally forgot about the name of the Montreal protocol, despite it being mentioned in some videos I saw on YouTube
It's as if I only knew them by being the thing, but not by their names.
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