Creating Climate Coalitions: Mass Preferences for Compensating Vulnerability in the World’s Two Largest Democracies

Gaikwad, Nikhar; Genovese, Federica; Tingley, Dustin

doi:10.1017/s0003055422000223

Cited by 56 publications

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“…Because men are overrepresented in elected political positions in almost every country, it is important to understand the origins and maintenance of their climate beliefs (see, e.g., Bromley-Trujillo, Holman, and Sandoval 2019). Because men are more likely to perceive climate change mitigation as having material costs in wealthy countries, compensatory mechanisms might help generate support for decarbonization (Gaikwad, Genovese, and Tingley 2022), similar to their role in generating support for free trade (Margalit 2011). However, this solution is likely more suitable for addressing perceived material costs than perceived psychological costs.…”

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confidence: 99%

Facing Change: Gender and Climate Change Attitudes Worldwide

Bush

Clayton

2022

Am Polit Sci Rev

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Gender differences in concern about climate change are highly correlated with economic development: when countries are wealthier, a gap emerges whereby women are more likely than men to express concern about our changing climate. These differences stem from cross-national variation in men’s attitudes. Men, more than women, tend to be less concerned about climate change when countries are wealthier. This article develops a new theory about the perceived costs and benefits of climate mitigation policy to explain this pattern. At the country level, the perceived benefits of mitigation tend to decrease with economic development, whereas the perceived costs increase. At the individual level, the perceived costs of mitigation tend to increase with economic development for men more than for women. Evidence from existing surveys from every world region, an original 10-country survey in the Americas and Europe, and focus groups in Peru and the United States support the theory.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Facing Change: Gender and Climate Change Attitudes Worldwide

Bush

Clayton

2022

Am Polit Sci Rev

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“…Our paper has important implications for climate policy. While the “just transition” debate focuses on how decarbonization policies impose costs on fossil fuel communities, we explore how decarbonization projects impact local communities in ways that might activate both YIMBY and NIMBY dynamics [ 10 , 73 , 74 ]. These projects include infrastructure (such as solar/wind farms and new transmission lines) as well as supply chain (as in lithium, Nickel, and cobalt mines).…”

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confidence: 99%

Pursuing decarbonization along with national security: Assessing public support for the Thacker Pass lithium mine

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Decarbonization policies are being stymied by political conflict. Local communities might oppose decarbonization infrastructure such as solar farms, mines, or transmission lines if they view these projects as imposing high costs on them in relation to their benefits. To decarbonize, the automobile industry seeks to shift from the internal combustion engine to electric vehicles, which require lithium-based rechargeable batteries. In the United States, to meet the increasing lithium demand through domestic sources, there is a proposal for a lithium mine in Thacker Pass, Nevada, which faces strong opposition from native nations and environmental groups. Using a representative sample of Nevada residents (n = 1,368), we explore if proximity to the Thacker Pass mine and to any Nevada mine influence public support for the proposed lithium mine. In addition, we test three frames that emphasize different benefits of the proposed mine: climate policy, national security, and local economic development. We find that respondents living closer to the Thacker Pass mine tend to be more supportive of the proposed lithium mine but exposure to existing Nevada mines does not affect public support. Among the treatment frames, only the national security frame increases public support. This suggests that to navigate local public opposition, the national security—domestic sourcing of key inputs required for decarbonization, aspect of decarbonization projects should be highlighted.

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“…They also need to be sensitive about how to bundle compensation packages to mobilize political support. The compensation needed to bring political groups and communities on board depends, for example, on how vulnerable they are to both costly climate policy and the physical impacts of climate change (14). Countries that can absorb costly policy investments are thus better able to invest in the deployment of frontier technologies that are not yet cost-competitive with fossil fuel technologies.…”

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confidence: 99%