Engineering360: "Study Reveals Beliefs Held By General Public Concerning Ocean Pollution"

It would be interesting to see exactly what questions were asked, and to what sample population. Polls can have any result you want when you word the questions "correctly" and ask the "right people".

<insert Mark Twain reference here>

< get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please >

<we'll start with the facts about how the survey was conducted>

Note that the problem starts as research grant money and then morphs into political tax money. The "crisis" is that someone wants to make a paycheck out of your pocket.