The desire to maintain the social order and the right to economic freedom: Two distinct moral pathways to climate change scepticism

Rossen, Isabel; Dunlop, Patrick D.; Lawrence, Carmen

doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2015.01.006

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“…Earlier research, done mainly within the US population, has established a correlation between right-wing ideology and a lack of interest in climate changes (Guy et al 2014;Jacquet et al 2014;Rossen et al 2015). None of our Norwegian informants depicted themselves as rightwing.…”

Section: Political Affiliationmentioning

confidence: 68%

“…It might also indicate that climate change is closely tied to identities, core values, and worldviews (de Leeuw et al 2015;Guy et al 2014). This in turn may explain why people perceive sustainable living as a threat to their values (Rossen et al 2015). The same goes for our informants; they do not want to elicit feelings of guilt in themselves over sustainable life choices they do not make.…”

Section: Morality Versus Moralizationmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…Questions about how much effort and self-discipline the lifestyle demanded were informed by research, suggesting that ego depletion and a state of flow might influence the stamina with which people continue living sustainable (Harré 2011;Vohs and Faber 2007). Questions about the participants' worldview and political affiliation were included in the interview-guide based on research suggesting a link between leftist political views (Jacquet et al 2014;Rossen et al 2015) and intrinsically oriented world view (Hedlund-de Witt et al 2014) and sustainable behavior. This mix between an inductive narrative methodology and a deductive theory-driven approach was chosen as a trade-off both in order to encourage and secure openness on one hand, and on the other hand, to make potential new insights into the field easily identifiable and coherent with previous research (Kvale 2007).…”

Section: Data Collectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Previous psychological research has had a tendency to focus mainly on the barriers to influencing people's attitudes and behavior towards climate change (Sweetman and Whitmarsh 2016;van Dam and Fischer 2015). Much of the research carried out uses experimental (Leviston et al 2014;Zelenski et al 2015) or correlational methods (Hedlund-de Witt et al 2014;Rossen et al 2015). There are few qualitative investigations of people who have made sustainable life choices on their own.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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What Motivates Green Living? A Qualitative Investigation of Sustainable Life Choices

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2018

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The purpose of this qualitative enquiry was to map the psychological motives behind sustainable lifestyles. Narrative interviews with inhabitants (N = 8) of the ecovillage in Hurdal north of Oslo and the Sustainable Lives movement in Bergen were conducted. A thematic analysis shows that the informants express taking responsibility for climate change, which suggests that they perceive sustainability as a moral issue. They report a greater sense of alignment with their own values when living sustainably, something that is experienced as rewarding, but living sustainably is also recognized as more positive in own right. For example, the participants enjoy a lifestyle that is more social after a change to sustainable living. Nevertheless, there is acceptance that the informants sometimes have to live in ways that are less environmentally friendly in order to achieve the long-term goal; this duality helps them to continue their sustainable lifestyle even in the face of setbacks.

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Section: Political Affiliationmentioning

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Section: Morality Versus Moralizationmentioning

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“…Graham et al (2011) have applied it in particular to understanding and explaining differences in engagement with public policy issues according to political orientation. They suggested that those of differing political orientation (liberals and conservatives) identify to greater and lesser degrees with different moral foundations, resulting in challenges for collective action that appeals to different groups (Feygina 2013, Rossen et al, 2015.…”

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Moral reasoning in adaptation to climate change

Adger

Butler

Walker-Springett

2017

Environmental Politics

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Moral foundations theory argues that moral reasoning is widely observed and fundamental to the legitimacy of relevant governance and policy interventions. A new analytical framework to examine and test how moral reasoning underpins and legitimizes governance and practice on adaptation to climate change risks is proposed. It develops a typology of eight categories of vulnerability-based and system-based moral reasoning that pertain to the dilemmas around adaptation and examines the prevalence of these moral categories in public discourse about specific adaptation issues. The framework is tested using data on climate change impact, adaptation, and societal responsibility, drawn from 14 focus groups comprising 148 participants across the UK. Participants consistently use moral reasoning to explain their views on climate adaptation; these include both vulnerability-based and system-based framings. These findings explain public responses to adaptation options and governance, and have implications for the direction of adaptation policy, including understanding which types of reasoning support politically legitimate interventions.

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The Role of Moral Foundations, Anticipated Guilt and Personal Responsibility in Predicting Anti-consumption for Environmental Reasons

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In response to the growing importance of environmental issues, more and more consumers are turning to anti-consumption by reducing, rejecting, or avoiding consumption. Covering the intersection of sustainable consumption and anti-consumption, previous studies relied on socio-cognitive models to explain this decision. In order to extend their findings, we consider the moral and emotional perspectives to examine reducing consumption for environmental reasons in a particular context, i.e. air travel. It is against this backdrop that we propose a conceptual model that includes moral foundations as the main antecedent, followed by anticipated guilt and personal responsibility, while intention to reduce consumption (i.e. air travel) for environmental reasons, positive word of mouth about reducing air travel (WOM) and environmental activism represent the outcomes. The proposed model is tested on a sample of 511 respondents from a UK online consumer panel. Our results confirm the importance of moral foundations, anticipated guilt and personal responsibility and their interplay in the prediction of intention to reduce consumption for environmental reasons. Anticipated guilt influences WOM, while personal responsibility influences activism. In addition, intentions to reduce consumption for environmental reasons have a positive impact on WOM and environmental activism. There are several implications for public policy makers and NGOs that fight against climate change that derive from these findings, as well as research opportunities for academics interested in this topic.

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The desire to maintain the social order and the right to economic freedom: Two distinct moral pathways to climate change scepticism

Cited by 35 publications

References 19 publications

What Motivates Green Living? A Qualitative Investigation of Sustainable Life Choices

What Motivates Green Living? A Qualitative Investigation of Sustainable Life Choices

Moral reasoning in adaptation to climate change

The Role of Moral Foundations, Anticipated Guilt and Personal Responsibility in Predicting Anti-consumption for Environmental Reasons

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