CHANGING HABITS: Less than 10 percent of students know that more than 90 percent of the nation’s energy is imported, and few use reusable bags and straws, a poll found

Taipei Times
Date: May 09, 2019
By: Lin Chia-nan  /  Staff reporter

More than 90 percent of junior-high and senior-high school students have no knowledge about the nation’s energy sources, a poll released yesterday by the King Car Cultural and Educational Foundation showed.

The foundation regularly surveys students’ opinions about environmental issues before the summer vacation starts in July, foundation executive director Joyce Tseng (曾清芸) told a news conference in Taipei.

Less than 10 percent of the respondents were aware that more than 90 percent of the nation’s energy is imported, similar to the findings of the polls conducted in the past two years, foundation executive secretary Chen Chien-chih (陳建志) said.

Asked where they obtain information about environmental issues, 64.6 percent said they mainly obtain such information from teachers, 49.9 percent said from media reports and 49.1 percent said from online sources, the poll found.    [FULL  STORY]