Environmental issues are collective action problems that can only be solved with coordinated efforts among diverse groups of people. Whether people are willing to collaborate to solve these problems, however, depends on their perceptions of, and trust in, each other. If people misperceive each other—for instance, due to inaccurate beliefs about who truly cares about environmental issues—then it becomes difficult to build diverse coalitions to address these collective problems. In this paper we review recent research on factors that lead diverse groups of people to misperceive each other’s environmental concerns, and the consequences of these misperceptions for collective action. We then conclude by discussing a more inclusive approach for building diverse coalitions in environmental movements.

环境问题是集体行动问题，只有在不同群体之间共同努力才能解决。但是，人们是否愿意合作解决这些问题，取决于他们对彼此的理解和信任。如果人们之间彼此误解（例如，由于对谁真正关心环境问题的认识不正确），那么就很难建立多元化的联盟来解决这些集体问题。在本文中，我们回顾了有关导致不同人群误解彼此的环境问题的因素的最新研究，以及这些误解对集体行动的后果。然后，我们通过讨论在环境运动中建立多元化联盟的更具包容性的方法作为总结。