Climate change polls

Polls show that 70% of people consider climate change as a serious problem. People in North Dakota have a unique opportunity to show if this is real or just the right thing to say to a pollster. North Dakota recently approved their biannual budget of $15 billion dollars and $5 billion of that comes from oil revenues. A major environmental problem exist in the oil fields. The fields produce excess natural gas that cannot be piped or stored and thus is burned. This burning produces large amounts of CO2. About 5 years ago a plan was laid out to quit flaring this gas but it still remains. The facilities should be shut down until new gas pipelines can be built and this would take a couple of years. This $5 billion dollars is distributed to the people of the state through various programs and it would mean a loss of income if things shut down. With a population of 750,000 people this comes to $3,300 per year per person. For a family of four this represents a loss of $13,000 per year. Would a new poll show that the people are still concerned about climate change if this were to happen. This is a case for North Dakota but would things be any different in any other location. Climate change is important to people with the understanding that someone else will take care of the problem.