Almost half of the people surveyed answered correctly, identifying Kyoto as an agreement on carbon emissions, but close to half of those who answered correctly admitted guessing the response. 38 percent thought the Kyoto Protocol was the treaty that ended World War 2, and 14 percent thought it was a Japanese banquet dish...
This is very much a current topic, and makes me wonder - is it really our school system that is letting us down, history-wise, or is it simply that the average, man-in-the-street Australian chooses to be massively uninformed? This is a topic which all Australians should have heard of (it's been very much on the news for at least the past few months) whether it is mentioned in school or not, which would indicate that the craptacular poll results stem less from a namby-pamby syllabus and more from a high percentage of the respondents being apathetic, lazy, disinterested and possibly just plain stupid.
But they'll be allowed to vote at the upcoming election, where they can exercise their opinions as to the shortfalls of the education system and our position on global matters of environment...
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"Environmental emissions standards treaty negotiations with the stars".
Or, even, "So you think you can negotiate a carbon reduction treaty".
Well, you might sit down on a weeknight to watch that on telly, but it's not exactly "sexy", is it? I'm genuinely surprised that the slack jawed yokels contacted even recognised Kyoto as Japanese, although I suppose their choices Were limited.
Maybe the "Dumbing down" or the average Aussie has something to do with the excruciatingly slow broadband speeds...
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