Using the COVID-19 economic crisis to frame climate change as a secondary issue reduces mitigation support,Journal of Environmental Psychology

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Using the COVID-19 economic crisis to frame climate change as a secondary issue reduces mitigation support
Journal of Environmental Psychology ( IF 6.1 ) Pub Date : 2020-08-01 , DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2020.101464
Ullrich K H Ecker ₁ , Lucy H Butler ₁ , John Cook ₂ , Mark J Hurlstone _{1,

3} , Tim Kurz _{1,

4} , Stephan Lewandowsky _{1,

5}

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Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has understandably dominated public discourse, crowding out other important issues such as climate change. Currently, if climate change enters the arena of public debate, it primarily does so in direct relation to the pandemic. In two experiments, we investigated (1) whether portraying the response to the COVID-19 threat as a “trial run” for future climate action would increase climate-change concern and mitigation support, and (2) whether portraying climate change as a concern that needs to take a “back seat” while focus lies on economic recovery would decrease climate-change concern and mitigation support. We found no support for the effectiveness of a trial-run frame in either experiment. In Experiment 1, we found that a back-seat frame reduced participants’ support for mitigative action. In Experiment 2, the back-seat framing reduced both climate-change concern and mitigation support; a combined inoculation and refutation was able to offset the drop in climate concern but not the reduction in mitigation support.

中文翻译：

使用 COVID-19 经济危机将气候变化作为次要问题来减少缓解支持

摘要可以理解，COVID-19 大流行占据了公共话语的主导地位，排挤了气候变化等其他重要问题。目前，如果气候变化进入公众辩论的舞台，它主要是与大流行病直接相关。在两个实验中，我们调查了 (1) 将对 COVID-19 威胁的响应描述为未来气候行动的“试运行”是否会增加对气候变化的关注和缓解支持，以及 (2) 是否将气候变化描述为一个问题这需要“退居二线”，而重点放在经济复苏上，这将减少对气候变化的担忧和缓解气候变化的支持。在这两个实验中，我们都没有发现对试运行框架有效性的支持。在实验 1 中，我们发现后座框架降低了参与者对缓和行动的支持。在实验二中，后座框架减少了对气候变化的关注和缓解支持；结合接种和反驳能够抵消气候问题的减少，但不能抵消缓解支持的减少。

更新日期：2020-08-01

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