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It's not too late to do the right thing: Moral motivations for climate change action
WIREs Climate Change ( IF 9.2 ) Pub Date : 2019-10-23 , DOI: 10.1002/wcc.615
Paul G. Bain 1 , Renata Bongiorno 2
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While it is too late to avert some dangerous consequences of climate change, it is not “all‐or‐nothing” and our actions can still make a difference. Building on social psychology research showing the importance of seeing one's group as moral, one reason people act on climate change is to help create a more moral and caring society. Considering climate change action through this lens gives rise to several challenges, including how people respond to moral threats, who has moral standing as advocates, the consequences of promoting a moral cause through “immoral” actions (e.g., breaking the law), and moral “blind spots” where some emitting behaviors are excluded from scrutiny. Reviewing social psychological bases for these issues suggests potential responses to these challenges, including the importance of engaging people with diverse views and backgrounds (e.g., through citizens' assemblies), advisory personal carbon budgets, and broad‐based policies that aim to secure the social well‐being of communities as well as the protect the environment (e.g., a Green New Deal). Encouragingly, a recent study suggests that many people are more ready than we might assume to accept the types of changes urgently needed.

中文翻译:

做正确的事还为时不晚:采取气候变化行动的道德动机

尽管现在想避免气候变化的一些危险后果为时已晚,但不是“一无所有”,我们的行动仍然可以有所作为。建立在社会心理学研究基础之上,该研究表明将一个群体视为道德的重要性,人们对气候变化采取行动的原因之一是帮助创建一个更加道德和关怀的社会。从这个角度考虑气候变化行动会带来一些挑战,包括人们如何应对道德威胁,具有倡导者道德风范,通过“不道德”行为(例如,违反法律)促进道德事业的后果以及道德上的挑战。 “盲点”,其中一些发射行为被排除在审查之外。回顾这些问题的社会心理基础,表明可能应对这些挑战,包括让具有不同观点和背景的人参与的重要性(例如,通过公民大会),咨询性个人碳预算以及旨在确保社区的社会福祉和保护环境(例如, ,这是绿色新政)。令人鼓舞的是,最近的一项研究表明,许多人比我们想象的要更容易接受紧急变化的类型。
更新日期:2019-10-23
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