ABSTRACT

Some individuals may be internationally displaced by climate change. We surveyed two independent samples of New Zealanders to understand attitudes towards climate aid. Participants were relatively less supportive of financial aid policies, though the majority supported climate refugee policy. We assessed whether those ideological barriers commonly used to predict prejudice and policy support related to this acceptance in meaningful ways. Interestingly, we show that approval or rejection of climate refugee policy was largely predicated on views regarding how hierarchically society ought to be ordered. Our research suggests that those opposing climate refugee policy are motivated by anti-egalitarianism and concerns about their own economic welfare to a greater extent than concerns about differences in culture, values, and norms.

摘要

有些人可能因气候变化而在国际上流离失所。我们调查了两个独立的新西兰人样本，以了解对气候援助的态度。参与者对财政援助政策的支持相对较少，但大多数人支持气候难民政策。我们评估了那些通常用于预测偏见和政策支持的意识形态障碍是否以有意义的方式与这种接受相关。有趣的是，我们表明对气候难民政策的批准或拒绝在很大程度上取决于关于社会等级社会应该如何排序的观点。我们的研究表明，与对文化、价值观和规范差异的担忧相比，那些反对气候难民政策的人的动机是反平等主义和对自身经济福利的担忧。