Environment & Energy

The claim is that 99% of people don't read articles.

I certainly don't feel like I'm 1% of humanity, and I certainly do read articles, which is why my journal on this website is filled with thousands of papers referring to the primary scientific literature (and data pages like ttose at the Mauna Loa CO₂ Observatory to which I often reference here. )

My feeling is that if one doesn't read articles, one is not in a position either to make assertions about the demographics of practices. Reading is the underpinning of all education. If one does not read, one may be incapable of drawing obvious inferences, for instance the relationship between material costs and sustainability.

I read, pretty much six to ten hours a day. I'm not reading comic books. Most of my reading is involved with high level academic research, heavily weighted to the physical sciences.