Climate Change Views, Energy Policy Support, and Personal Action in the Intermountain West: The Anti-Reflexivity Effect

Givens, Jennifer E.; Hazboun, Shawn Olson; Briscoe, Michael D.; Krannich, Richard S.

doi:10.1080/08941920.2020.1769782

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“…Previous research sensitizes us to how fossil fuel–extracting communities (Bell 2016; Givens et al 2020; Malin 2015), in general, and Alberta (Davidson 2018; Davidson and Haan 2011; Davidson and MacKendrick 2004), in particular, receive public discourse shaped by the fossil fuel industry. The hegemony of this industry, coupled with the wealth and privilege it allows some to partake in, give many residents very particular environmental subjectivities and worldviews that deny anthropogenic climate change and remain skeptical of environmentalism.…”

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“…Complacency is particularly strong in fossil fuel–extracting communities of the West, where forces defending fossil fuel capitalism provide sources of “antireflexivity,” preventing critical self-evaluation (Givens et al 2020). Bell (2016) demonstrated the mechanisms by which residents of coal-mining Appalachian towns fail to resist harmful industry practices.…”

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Disrupting the Complacency: Disaster Experience and Emergent Environmentalism

Haney

2021

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

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As climate change intensifies, scholars are beginning to ask whether firsthand experience with disaster will cause complacent people to develop greater environmental concern and engage in more proenvironmental behaviors. Will the disruption caused by experiencing a local environmental disaster be enough to motivate residents to change their values and behaviors? The aim of this study is to answer that question by analyzing qualitative interview data collected from 40 residents of Calgary, Alberta, who survived the devastating and costly 2013 southern Alberta flood. Despite normally high levels of climate change denial and complacency, findings indicate that the flood prompted residents to concern themselves more with climate change and the climate crisis and to begin adopting many household-level proenvironmental behaviors. The findings also point to important gender differences in both environmental concern and proenvironmental behaviors. Thus, the article establishes a social-psychological process of attitudinal and behavioral change, allowing us to better understand how jarring environmental events disrupt complacency.

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Disrupting the Complacency: Disaster Experience and Emergent Environmentalism

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2021

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

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“…To elucidate the active sites of the studied catalysts, we employed a micro-reactor to study NH 3 This heterostructure interface has presented a good synergistic effect to enhance the catalytic activity because of more active sites and tuned electronic properties. The apparent activation energies for the studied ADR catalysts were calculated from Arrhenius plots of H 2 production rates at different temperatures (Fig.…”

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“…Nowadays, renewable energy and sustainability have become a top concern of the C-suite agenda around the world, and as such, they have committed to curbing the rising climate change. [1][2][3] Hydrogen (H 2 ) has received considerable attention and a leading position as a clean energy source in zero-emission vehicles, auxiliary power units, and industrial applications because of its highest gravimetric energy density. [4][5][6] However, energy-intensive H 2 storage and transportation currently are significant hurdles in developing hydrogen-based technologies such as fuel cells.…”

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Hydrogen generation via ammonia decomposition on highly efficient and stable Ru-free catalysts: approaching complete conversion at 450 °C

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“…Unfortunately, these shortcuts can be manipulated by those who want to shape our thinking (Cialdini 2007(Cialdini [1984). Climate denial is a case in point-public views have been influenced by ongoing campaigns to discredit the scientific consensus and block action, exploiting our cognitive shortcuts (Givens et al 2020;McCright 2016;McCright et al 2016). The history of such campaigns stretches back at least to arguments about the introduction of tetraethyl lead as a gasoline additive, and have been mounted around acid precipitation, ozone depletion, and most recently the COVID-19 pandemic (Michaels 2020).…”

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Political events and public views on climate change

Dietz

2020

Climatic Change

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The gap between the scientific assessment of climate risks and the actions being taken to mitigate and adapt to climate change is stunning. Why does this gap exist, and what can be done to close it? First, it is important to remember that facts are never sufficient for making decisions (Dietz 2013). Decisions require weighing costs, benefits, and risks, distributed differentially across the globe. Making tradeoffs involves values. So value differences and value conflicts have to be resolved in order to take action. Second, policy to respond to climate inevitably involves many interested and affected parties and multiple issues. That complexity alone can slow processes even when there is consensus about facts and values. But the active denial of the scientific consensus by some members of the public and some elites is a particularly troubling obstacle to climate action (McCright and Dunlap 2010; McCright et al. 2016). Hahnel et al. (2020) and Zawadzki et al. (2020) offer important insights into climate denial. They use a major political event in the USA, the election of Republican President Donald Trump, as a natural experiment to reveal some of the dynamics of climate denial and climate action. Politics is both a top-down and a bottom-up process (McLaughlin 2012; McLaughlin and Dietz 2008). The actions of citizens influence elites and policy. But the public is in turn influenced by larger forces and powerful actors, including politicians. The Republican victory in the 2016 election gives an opportunity to see how a large-scale political change impacted public opinion, thus linking the micro level of public views with the macro level of elites and national events. Most research tends to work at one level or the other. But crossing levels of analysis is essential if we are to understand the interplay of power structures and individual views and actions. The ideological split in views on climate change has been much studied. Conservatives (Republicans in the USA) are much more likely to be deniers of the scientific consensus than liberals (Democrats) (McCright et al. 2016). That is, conservatives are less likely to believe that the climate is changing, that the causes are largely anthropogenic, that the risks are substantial, and that action needs to be taken. The ideological difference about climate has

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Climate Change Views, Energy Policy Support, and Personal Action in the Intermountain West: The Anti-Reflexivity Effect

Cited by 15 publications

References 104 publications

Disrupting the Complacency: Disaster Experience and Emergent Environmentalism

Disrupting the Complacency: Disaster Experience and Emergent Environmentalism

Hydrogen generation via ammonia decomposition on highly efficient and stable Ru-free catalysts: approaching complete conversion at 450 °C

Political events and public views on climate change

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