Predictors of Pro-environmental Beliefs, Behaviors, and Policy Support among Climate Change Skeptics

IF 1.8 Q2 SOCIOLOGY

Social Currents Pub Date : 2021-03-18 DOI:10.1177/23294965211001403

K. Haltinner, Dilshani Sarathchandra

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Abstract

Previous research suggests that climate skeptics may hold a series of environmental concerns and support for environmental policy that, if engaged with, could serve to (in part) mitigate climate change. Using a unique data set from an online survey of 1,000 adults in the U.S. Pacific Northwest who are uncertain or skeptical of anthropogenic climate change, we explore the diversity of environmental concerns, environmental behaviors, and support for pro-environmental policy within and among those who do not accept climate science. Our results reveal statistically significant and consistent positive effects of (negative) environmental experiences on climate change skeptics’ environmental concerns, behaviors, and policy support. We also find that, among climate skeptics, religious ideation, conspiracy ideation, science distrust, political ideology (conservative), and gender (men) are negatively associated with certain pro-environmental attitudes, behaviors, and support for pro-environmental policy initiatives. We discuss the implications of these findings for climate change and science communication, environmental campaigns, and policy development.

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气候变化怀疑论者中支持环境的信念、行为和政策支持的预测因素

先前的研究表明，气候怀疑论者可能持有一系列的环境问题和对环境政策的支持，如果参与其中，可能有助于(部分地)减缓气候变化。我们利用对美国太平洋西北地区1000名不确定或怀疑人为气候变化的成年人进行的在线调查的独特数据集，探讨了不接受气候科学的人内部和之间的环境问题、环境行为和亲环境政策支持的多样性。我们的研究结果显示，(负面)环境经历对气候变化怀疑论者的环境关注、行为和政策支持产生了统计上显著且一致的积极影响。我们还发现，在气候怀疑论者中，宗教思想、阴谋思想、科学不信任、政治意识形态(保守派)和性别(男性)与某些亲环境态度、行为和对亲环境政策举措的支持呈负相关。我们讨论了这些发现对气候变化和科学传播、环境运动和政策制定的影响。

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Social Currents SOCIOLOGY-

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2.80

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期刊介绍： Social Currents, the official journal of the Southern Sociological Society, is a broad-ranging social science journal that focuses on cutting-edge research from all methodological and theoretical orientations with implications for national and international sociological communities. The uniqueness of Social Currents lies in its format. The front end of every issue is devoted to short, theoretical, agenda-setting contributions and brief, empirical and policy-related pieces. The back end of every issue includes standard journal articles that cover topics within specific subfields of sociology, as well as across the social sciences more broadly.