Americans underestime climate policy popularity by nearly half

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-32412-y

by montalbano • 4 years ago

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glitchc• 4 years ago

This is not necessarily a contradiction. The vast majority of people support “doing something to save the planet,” and a vast majority also support not being personally affected by that something. It leads to cognitive dissonance which shows up in surveys like these.

aurora722• 4 years ago

You missed the whole point. The purpose of that scientific looking article was to convince you that climate change is caused by human activity, which in reality is not.

bediger40002• 4 years ago

Wow! That's news! Does climate change exist? If so, what's causing it!?!?

no_where2• 4 years ago

Correct, when told some catastrophe is happening, most will want to do something. However, disagreeing what that "something" should be hardly sounds like congnative dissonance.

credit_guy• 4 years ago

I don't know. I see often here on HN people complaining that governments are doing nothing about climate change. Yet, almost every day you can read in the news about one government or another banning the sale of gasoline cars after 2035 or mandating x% of electricity come from renewables, or something similar. And generally these measures are received with popular support. The cognitive dissonance is there.

PaulHoule• 4 years ago

Also the difficulty is not that a majority of people don’t want to do something about it but instead that well-organized minorities can block a solution.

Americans underestime climate policy popularity by nearly half

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