在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间发掘应对气候变化的见解

IF 4.6 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
G. Hochachka
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摘要

COVID-19大流行可被视为强加于国际社会的一项实验,因此,对大流行的应对措施可以提供有关社会生态系统和变革进程的经验教训。在气候行动明显落后于政府间专门委员会的要求之际,是什么使应对COVID-19的措施能够像以前一样有效?本文考察了COVID-19应对措施与气候变化应对措施的主要差异,考察了这些全球问题中“更深层次”的人类层面。深入了解对这两个问题的反应,为参与气候变化提供了重要的经验教训。2020年上半年,为应对COVID-19大流行,在行为、思维、文化和制度方面发生了一系列戏剧性、快速和广泛的变化。然而,尽管政府间呼吁在全球变暖问题上对全社会进行这种根本性的变革,但公众对气候变化的看法是分裂的,集体行动也是缓慢的。需要对气候变化的社会心理层面进行更多的研究,以更好地了解实现变革的瓶颈是什么。在本文中,我研究了在应对COVID-19大流行过程中发生的事情,可以从气候危机中吸取教训。我重点关注三个心理方面,这三个方面使COVID-19应对措施变得可获得和可操作,而气候变化则无法做到这一点:理解复杂问题的心理需求;心理距离及其对动机和代理的影响有限的注意力资源会使某些问题变得不突出。气候参与的经验教训包括:(1)具体、简单和与个人相关的信息的有用性;(2)更加多样化和民主化的气候理解和故事;(3)心理距离对意义制造和代理感的影响认知增强;(4)对注意力拥挤的认识和对复杂问题的意义构建策略的需求。从COVID-19应对中更深层次的人类层面汲取的经验教训有助于为气候变化参与和转型提供信息。
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Unearthing insights for climate change response in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic
Non-technical summary The COVID-19 pandemic can be considered an experiment forced upon the world community and, as such, responses to the pandemic can provide lessons about socio-ecological systems as well as processes of transformative change. What enabled responses to COVID-19 to be as effective as they were, right at a time when climate action is notably lagging behind what intergovernmental panels have called for? This paper examines key differences in the COVID-19 response compared to that of climate change, examining the ‘deeper’ human dimensions of these global issues. Unearthing insights into the responses to both issues provides important lessons for climate change engagement. Technical summary In the first half of 2020, a dramatic, fast and widespread series of changes occurred in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, in behaviors, mindsets, culture, and systems. Yet, despite the intergovernmental calls for precisely this kind of fundamental, transformative change across society regarding global warming, public opinion on climate change is fractured and collective action is slow. More research is needed on the psychosocial dimensions of climate change, to better understand what the bottlenecks are for realizing transformative change. In this paper, I examine what occurred in the COVID-19 pandemic response that could be learned for the climate crisis. I focus on three psychological aspects that made the COVID-19 response accessible and actionable in a way that climate change is not: the mental demands for understanding complex issues; psychological distance and its impacts on motivation and agency; and finite attentional resources that can render certain issues as non-salient. Lessons for climate engagement include: (1) the usefulness of concrete, simple, and personally-relatable messaging; (2) more diverse and democratized climate understandings and stories; (3) greater recognition about how psychological distance affects meaning-making and sense of agency; and (4) appreciation of attentional crowding and the need for sense-making strategies about complex issues. Social media summary Lessons from the deeper human dimensions of COVID-19 response help inform climate change engagement and transformation.
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Global Sustainability
Global Sustainability Environmental Science-Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
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