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Climate change: What makes us care?
http://ns.umich.edu/new/releases/23729-climate-change-what-makes-us-care[font face=Serif][font size=5]Climate change: What makes us care?[/font]
Apr 25, 2016 | Contact Greta Guest
[font size=3]ANN ARBOR—It's been argued that how much we know about climate change is unrelated to how much we care about addressing it.
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"What we found was that culture plays a relatively small role, and that knowledge about climate plays a larger one," Arvai said. "Why is this important? If you take the previous cultural work at face value, it paints a hopeless and pessimistic picture. It sends the message that there's little we can do until 'culture' changes, which tends to be very slow.
"Our research clearly shows that education and decision support aimed at the public and policy makers is not a lost cause."
Knowledge about the causes of climate change was correlated with higher levels of concern about climate change in all of the countries studied—Canada, China, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.
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Apr 25, 2016 | Contact Greta Guest
[font size=3]ANN ARBOR—It's been argued that how much we know about climate change is unrelated to how much we care about addressing it.
…
"What we found was that culture plays a relatively small role, and that knowledge about climate plays a larger one," Arvai said. "Why is this important? If you take the previous cultural work at face value, it paints a hopeless and pessimistic picture. It sends the message that there's little we can do until 'culture' changes, which tends to be very slow.
"Our research clearly shows that education and decision support aimed at the public and policy makers is not a lost cause."
Knowledge about the causes of climate change was correlated with higher levels of concern about climate change in all of the countries studied—Canada, China, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.
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