Disempowering emotions: The role of educational experiences in social responses to climate change

Jones, Charlotte; Davison, Aidan

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.11.006

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“…Anxiety exerts inconsistent motivational effects: in many cases, anxiety (or fear) can alert individuals to health and environmental threats, thus promoting action and information seeking (Tannenbaum et al 2015 ; van Zomeren et al 2010 ), but it can alternatively promote psychological avoidance and defensiveness (Kim and Niederdeppe 2013 ; O’Neill and Nicholson-Cole 2009 ; Stanley et al 2021 ). Anger is an approach-oriented emotion that arises in response to perceived injustice (Van Doorn et al 2014 ), and can either facilitate cooperation and motivate pro-social action toward societal threats (such as when it is directed toward those seen as culpable for causing climate change; Jones and Davison 2021 ; Kleres and Wettergren 2017 ; Stanley et al 2021 ) or can be associated with anti-social or aggressive action (such as when individuals experience reactance toward perceived freedom threats of public health recommendations; Dillard and Peck 2000 ). Feeling exhausted or bored in response to threats (e.g., “COVID fatigue”) might be associated with disengagement (a lack of action; e.g., Geiger et al 2021b ) as individuals lose motivation due to fatigue or a lack of psychological meaning associated with behaviors (Markowitz et al 2013 ; Westgate and Wilson 2018 ).…”

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Investigating similarities and differences in individual reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate crisis

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How can individuals’ responses to the coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic be used to inform constructive responses for climate action? We present an exploratory, mixed-methods investigation ( N = 1784 US adults) into similarities and differences in individuals’ reactions to COVID-19 and climate change in June 2020. Participants identified many similarities between the issues, indicating that both are harmful to public health, politically polarizing, have global impacts, and have solutions. Participants also perceived many differences between the two threats: many perceived COVID-19 as medical, natural, and on a shorter timescale, while many perceived climate change as environmental, human caused, and on a longer timescale. Emotional reactions to each topic predict topic-relevant behaviors, but more strongly, and with a broader range of emotional reactions, for climate change than COVID-19. Open-ended responses show that hope was elicited for both issues in response to contemplating taking collective and individual actions, and despair was elicited for both issues in response to perceiving that others do not take the issues seriously. Finally, participants perceived that they were engaging in relatively more COVID-19 mitigation behaviors and some climate change mitigation behaviors than others (i.e., the “better-than-average” effect). Many participants believed others were relatively unconcerned about both threats because of the invisibility of the threats, ignorance, and elite cues (e.g., then-President Trump downplaying the threat). Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10584-021-03143-8.

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“…Existing primary and secondary curricula confine climate to a narrow scientific narrativethere is no system-sanctioned space in pre-tertiary education where climate grief, politics and (in)justice can be voiced and shared. This means that by the time many of these students reach university, they feel disempowered and betrayed by their teachers and elders (Jones & Davison, 2020).…”

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Earth unbound: Climate change, activism and justice

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Bedford

Bellingham

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Educational Philosophy and Theory

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This experimental writing piece by the Earth Unbound Collective explores the ethical, political and pedagogical challenges in addressing climate change, activism and justice. The provocation Earth Unbound: the struggle to breathe and the creative thoughts that follow are inspired by the contagious energy of what Donna Haraway (2016) calls response-ability or the ability to respond. This energy ripples through monthly reading groups and workshops organised by this interdisciplinary collective that emerged organically in January 2020.

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“…This is aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions that have led to climate change across the globe. Scientists also conduct research on the negative impact of climate change on the economy [72][73][74][75] and other spheres of social life [76][77][78][79][80][81][82][83][84][85].…”

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Turkmenistan’s Gas Sector Development Scenarios Based on Econometric and SWOT Analysis

2021

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Turkmenistan is currently one of the key suppliers in the global natural gas market, and it is important to examine its competitive position in the world. The aim of this article is to forecast the development strategy of its gas sector. To achieve this aim, the authors first examined: (1) Turkmenistan’s position in the global gas market and the structure of its oil and gas sector; (2) the share of gas in Turkmenistan’s exports. They then conducted an analysis of the causal relationship between FDI and GDP. The above research made it possible to conduct a comprehensive SWOT analysis. Based on the SWOT analysis, three sector development scenarios were developed: pessimistic, realistic, and optimistic. On their basis, the gas sector in Turkmenistan can build strategies for its development, considering the impact of market and non-market factors.

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Disempowering emotions: The role of educational experiences in social responses to climate change

Cited by 121 publications

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Investigating similarities and differences in individual reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate crisis

Investigating similarities and differences in individual reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate crisis

Earth unbound: Climate change, activism and justice

Turkmenistan’s Gas Sector Development Scenarios Based on Econometric and SWOT Analysis

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