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By: Emma Fogel, Kara Sullivan, and Lexi Chodash 

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By: Emma Fogel, Kara Sullivan, and Lexi Chodash 

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We think a value that should be added to the list is our control over the environment. Fossil fuels have been a big part of our changing environment. Recently, people have been trying to find ways to improve the changing environment without harming it. People are starting to value the idea that what we do to the environment will effect our lively hood.

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The oil, gas and coal industries are moving towards more and more extreme sources of fossil fuels - these techniques are increasingly dirty and dangerous.
In many parts of the world, the easy to access oil, gas and coal resources are running dry. So as global demand grows, the fossil fuel industry is pushing into resources that are harder to extract. This can mean drilling in water thousands of feet deep or mining for tar sands in Canada. It can mean drilling in the fragile and remote Arctic oceans or leveling entire Appalachian mountain tops to access coal.

Extracting these resources is extreme because of their life cycle impacts or because of the heightened risks of accidents that they entail.

BP's Deepwater Horizon accident in the Gulf of Mexico was a chilling example of the risks of ultra-deepwater drilling.

Extracting oil from the tar sands is one example of the increased impacts of extreme oil extraction in which land is devastated to access the oil and vast quantities of energy are used to both extract and process this high carbon energy source.

Fracking is another example of oil and gas extraction taken to the extreme. In the old days, a well was drilled straight down and oil and gas were pumped up. Now to get at less accessible oil and gas, wells are drilled thousands of feet down and then thousands more across requiring horizontal drilling. Then thousands of pounds of water, sand and chemicals are pumped down the well to fracture the rock that holds the oil and gas. Each well is fracked several times to boost production. Rapid decline rates require that drillers frequently move on to new locations within the field to begin the process again in order to maintain production levels.

The move into extreme fossil fuel resources is partly driven by increasing demand and dwindling supply, but it is also driven by unrealistic and unsustainable forecasts of energy demand that completely ignore climate change. It is a particularly worrying trend because as billions of dollars of capital are expended opening these resources for extraction we are locking in a supply of fossil fuels beyond which we can afford to burn.

Oil Change International focuses its work on extreme fossil fuels on:

We have also written several reports for the investor community on investment risk in extreme oil extraction.

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Extreme Fossil Fuels - Oil Change International

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The oil, gas and coal industries are moving towards more and more extreme sources of fossil fuels - these techniques are increasingly dirty and dangerous. In many parts of the world, the easy to access oil, gas and coal resources are running dry.

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Mark Zuckerberg is one of the many people who Americans value as someone who has achieved a lot and is very successful. He was able to create a social media site for people to stay in touch with their friends and family that they may not be able to see everyday.

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Roughly two-thirds (67%) of social media users say that staying in touch with current friends and family members is a major reason they use these social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace or LinkedIn.

Roughly two thirds (67%) of social media users say that staying in touch with current friends and family members is a major reason they use social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace or LinkedIn; about half say they use these sites to reconnect with old friends.

Those who say that keeping up with family members is a major consideration in their use of social networking sites are a demographically diverse group - there are no dominant trends on this question regarding age, income, education, race/ethnicity, parental status or place of residence. The most statistically significant factor on this question is gender, as female social media users are more likely than male users to cite family connections as a major reason for using these sites (72% vs. 55%).

Compared with older adults, social media users under the age of 50 are especially likely to say that these tools help them keep up with existing friends and reconnect with old ones. Roughly seven in ten users under the age of fifty say that staying in touch with current friends is a major reason they use online social platforms, and just over half say that reconnecting with old friends is equally important. These shares are significantly higher than comparable figures for users ages 50 and older, although a relatively large number of older adults do point to connections with friends as a major reason for their social networking site usage.

Women are slightly more likely than men to say that staying in touch with current friends is a major reason for using online social tools (70% vs. 63%). In addition,parents are more likely than non-parents to say that reconnecting with old friends is a major reason behind their usage (56% vs. 47%). Read More

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Roughly two-thirds (67%) of social media users say that staying in touch with current friends and family members is a major reason they use these social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace or LinkedIn.

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Although in many ways America does value democracy, especially since that is the type of government we have, although there are many situations where the people don't have a say. For example, with the most recent Presidential Election, the president who won won by the Electoral College votes, while the losing candidate won the popular vote. This made many people feel that their voices weren't being heard.

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The smart phone is something that has helped improve our society in many ways. Furthermore, social apps such as Facebook, Instagram and even text messaging help people who may not be in face to face contact everyday to be able to talk. With Smart Phones, people are able to keep in contact with their loved ones that live a ways away.

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"You could break away from the monotony of everyday stress and feel like you're back home for a bit," said Murphy, who is now stationed at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.

The connection made his deployment more bearable and eased his return home about a month ago, especially with the couple's 2- and 4-year-old daughters, he and his wife, Bianca, said.

"He was part of their day-to-day life, so there was no adjustment that this was some stranger in a uniform," Bianca Murphy said.

Social media networks and fast Internet connections in remote parts of the world are revolutionizing what it means to be deployed to a war zone or other post, experts say. Researchers are only beginning to assess the impact on the military and the home front, both during and after a deployment. Although some see the access to family as a positive, there is some concern that it can also be a distraction.

"No other military in the history of warfare has had that level of access to their families," said Benjamin Karney, a social psychologist at University of California-Los Angeles, who studies marriage and family relationships in the military.

Karney and three other researchers recently began a three-year study for the Department of Defense to track how 8,000 military families handle stress before, during and after deployments.

Karney said the Pentagon wants to know whether such a connection strengthens family bonds and eases the post-deployment transition, or whether it might distract servicemembers from their mission and expose fractures in their personal relationships. The truth might be a little of both, he said.

"For the families that are strong to begin with, this technology is probably a tremendous help to them," Karney said. "For families having problems, maybe the technology will exacerbate their problems."

Until about two years ago, the military had blocked most access to Facebook and similar sites because of concerns over security breaches, said Don Faul, vice president of online operations for Facebook. Now, military commanders advise troops and their families on how to keep themselves and their units safe online.

Use of those sites has boomed, said Tara Crooks, co-founder of the Army Wife Network, an Oklahoma-based company offering support and advice for military spouses.

"I don't know a military family member who isn't on Facebook," she said.

Katelyn Rowley, a 24-year-old senior airman with the Delaware Air National Guard, said she used Facebook and Skype to keep in touch with her fiancé and family during her six-month deployment to Kuwait last year.

"I was able to talk to family every day if I wanted to, which is awesome," said Rowley, of Smyrna, Del. "You don't feel like you're missing out on things. I can't imagine deploying for long periods of time and relying only on letters."

In previous deployments to Iraq and South America with the Delaware Air National Guard, Master Sgt. Clifford Snyder relied on letters and brief phone calls to keep in touch with his wife and three children in Camden, Del.

"The kids grew so much during those times," Snyder said. "You felt when you first got home like a visitor in the house."

During his most recent six-month deployment to Iraq in 2009-10, he checked in with them on Facebook and video-chatted with them on Skype almost daily.

"I got to see the kids, and they were able to give me updates on how school was going and stuff," Snyder said. "I felt like I was there for the whole time."

Faul said one of Facebook's most popular features among military families is the ability to create groups, so only certain people can see their comments and pictures. Many spouses create secret groups for intimate conversations, he said.

"It's just the two of you who are seeing it," said Jason Krafsky, a relationship speaker and blogger with his wife, Kelli, who call themselves the Social Media Couple.

Those conversations might prove awkward when the deployment ends, Krafsky said.

"You're used to typing everything out and contemplating what you're saying before you hit send, so going from Facebook to face to face can create this weird dynamic," Krafsky said.

The Murphys' daughters got so used to using Skype to talk with their father in Iraq that their youngest girl still wants to do it, Bianca Murphy said.

"Even though he's sitting in the living room, she'll say, 'No, Mommy, I need to talk to him on the computer,' " she said.

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Social media allow military families a deeper connection

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"You could break away from the monotony of everyday stress and feel like you're back home for a bit," said Murphy, who is now stationed at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. The connection made his deployment more bearable and eased his return home about a month ago, especially with the couple's 2- and 4-year-old daughters, he and his wife, Bianca, said.

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In America, it is expected that everyone finds someone, falls in love, finds a home, and starts a family. It seems as if it is a part of our brain that causes us to fall in love, although in reality it is just a social norm. People who are single most of the time are expected to constantly be looking for someone to be with.

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In today's society, Americans strive for everyone in the nation to have equal rights, but this has become something much harder to achieve. Men still make more money than women do everyday, while working the same amount of hours at the same job.

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People who get a better education are said to become more successful in life. This is why we value education so much. Americans believe if we do well in school we will get a better job and be more successful in life. Even though a "C" grade is consider average most students look at getting a "C" as a poor grade. Most student want to get above a "B" average and work really hard to get it.

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In America, Freedom is what we idolize, although in the world we live in today, people are being banned from entering our country. Our motto has always been "The land of the free", although now, people don't have the freedom to enter a country because of their race or ethnicity.

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President Trump's travel ban, which is currently on hold because of a decision by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, is at the heart of a roaring debate about what kind of country we have - and what kind of country we want. It has set off huge protests and scads of legal challenges. And yet, the public at large remains relatively evenly divided on the ban (but don't call it a ban).

National polls using random telephone samples have found support for the proposal ranging from 42 to 47 percent with slight majorities opposed (51 to 55 percent); Trump has cited Web and automated polls that show support cresting in the mid-50s, though those polls rely on less rigorous samples of the public.

The varying levels of support should not surprise regular poll watchers given the complicated policy details, different question wordings and methods. But it's also possible that initial opinions are largely driven by opinions of Trump himself rather than the policy. The New York Times' Nate Cohn pointed to a telling sign of that pattern, with the early polls showing a tight connection between Trump's job approval rating and support for the travel ban.

The dynamic is clear in the scatterplot below, with net support for the ban (support minus opposition) rising along with net job approval for Trump. While only nine polls are included in the analysis, the correlation of 0.91 is nearly as high as it can get (1.0 is the highest).

Given Trump's well-established reputation, odds are that his approval ratings are doing more to influence support for the ban than the other way around. But as the political debate continues, attitudes toward the ban itself may take on heightened importance in driving its overall support as well as Trump's popularity.

Beyond current support for the travel ban, polls find many Americans' agree with Trump's arguments that screening for refugees is insufficient, but even larger numbers agree with criticisms of his travel ban and broader immigration policy.
Agreement with arguments for the ban
On Trump's side, a Monmouth University poll last fall found only 34 percent of registered voters saying the U.S. is doing enough to prevent future terrorist attacks on U.S. soil, while 57 percent said it is not. A poll released this week underscored persistent fears, with more than 7 in 10 adults saying they believe terrorists associated with the Islamic State are currently in the U.S. and have the resources to launch a major terrorist attack.

Trump's criticisms of screening processes for refugees also have a wide audience, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll following the 2015 Paris terrorist attacks. Less than half of adults were at least somewhat confident the United States could identify and keep out potential terrorists who may be among refugees (47 percent), and only 13 percent were very confident.
Agreement with arguments against the ban
Polls asking about issues related to the ban have found agreement with a variety of arguments against the proposal, suggesting supporters must ward off several lines of criticism.

While Trump has said the ban is necessary to keep the country safe from terrorist attacks, several polls find less than half of the broader public believes the travel ban will have this effect. A February Quinnipiac poll found 38 percent of registered voters saying Trump's executive order would make the country more safe, while just as many (39 percent) said it would make the nation less safe and the rest predicted no effect or has no opinion. That mirrored two other polls asking the question, where between 36 (in a CBS News pol and 41 percent ( in a CNN poll) said the policy would increase safety.

Related to effectiveness, the policy focuses on the threat of terrorists coming into the country to carry out attacks, which Americans fear less than homegrown attackers. The Quinnipiac poll found 56 percent of voters saying so-called homegrown jihadists pose the greatest terrorist threat to the U.S., while 17 percent cited radicalized foreign visitors and 14 percent chose Syrian refugees. Those findings were similar to the Monmouth poll last fall.

Beyond practicality, polling finds many people objecting to Trump's policies as against American values. The CBS poll found 57 percent saying the ban "goes against America's founding principles." And CNN found 49 percent saying the order does more to "harm American values by preventing those seeking asylum from entering the U.S.," while 43 percent said it "does more to protect American values by keeping out people who don't support them."

Trump's support for giving persecuted Christians refugees from Syria preference over Muslim refugees appears to runs against a strong impulse for equal treatment. Fully 88 percent of adults in the CBS poll said the U.S. government should treat all potential immigrants the same regardless of religion, while 8 percent favored preference for Christians. Even 87 percent of self-described Christians agreed that religion shouldn't matter.

There are also concerns that Trump's current ban is a workaround to enact a Muslim ban, which Trump proposed during his campaign. The ban limits immigration from seven countries representing only 12 percent of the world's Muslims, though 97 percent of their populations are Muslim. A 55 percent majority of Americans polled by CNN said Trump's order is an attempt to ban Muslims from entering the U.S., as did 51 percent of registered voters in the Quinnipiac poll.
Attitudes shift slowly, but so far movement hasn't been in Trump's direction
Quinnipiac's polling before and after Trump announced his policy asked whether registered voters support or oppose "suspending immigration from 'terror prone' regions, even if it means turning away refugees from those regions?" In January the poll found support outpacing opposition by 48 to 42 percent, but in early February support dipped to 44 percent with opposition rising eight points to 50 percent.

Gallup's tracking poll also shows a dip in Trump's approval rating, with disapproval rising from the mid-40s in his first days in office to 50 percent or above since then, though the negative movement started before Trump announced the executive order on immigration.

Those shifts are small, though, and polling in the next few weeks can give us a clearer picture on what people think about the travel ban - and Trump's presidency overall.
Emily Guskin contributed to this report.

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Americans are more split on the Trump travel ban than you might think

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President Trump's travel ban, which is currently on hold because of a decision by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, is at the heart of a roaring debate about what kind of country we have - and what kind of country we want. It has set off huge protests and scads of legal challenges.