Move 2: So Tell Me, Prairie, Do you Enjoy Long Walks on the Beach?
For my next move, I created a poll and surveyed my school. I sent the poll to all of the faculty and high school students, and I ended up getting 131 responses. I asked 6 questions realting to environmental stewardship and different kinds of outdoor activities. Here are some of the results I got from my peers. I was not able to include every single response on this website, but you can check out the poll for yourself here.
The responses for the first two questions were interesting. Even though the majority of the people said they actively practice environmental stewardship, you will see that later on, the majority of people aren't willing to change their lifestyle to be more environmentally friendly/the majority of people don't practice environmentally friendly lifestyles in the first place. I liked the second question a lot because I could see which people were putting the time in to answer my survey versus the people who weren't putting any effort in it at all.
These were the activities that I included in the survey. As you can see, the three most popular activities were hiking, camping, and kayaking.
I asked these questions because I wanted to know if the people who said there were environmental stewards were able to change their lifestyles to help the environment.
I love some of these answers. My personal favorite is "idk." I was also pretty disappointed with how much more people preferred dogs over cats.