IT axiomatic that you cannot solve a problem if you don’t admit it is present – the best way to admit its existence is to talk about it. This is especially true when it comes to climate change.
For more than four decades, the climate condition was part of the national conversation – especially when harsh weather events occur in a warm world such as drought, floods, thermal waves and hurricanes. Among these emergency situations, the climate often declines to a secondary – or less. A husband to studiesOne of 2015, one of 2021 – found that only 35 % of Americans discuss climate change even from time to time. Since 2009, the respondents have been likely to say that they are discussing the climate “rare” or “never” from “sometimes” or “often”. now, New study in Plos climate It explores what authors describe as “silence of the climate” and provides an insight into how it is broken.
Any general discussion can be subject to a political or social issue of what is known as the “cycle of silence”. The more people say they hear a topic, the more likely it is possible to put it on themselves, which leads to fewer people who discuss it and still less than that raises the issue. The opposite is also correct: the more people discuss and discuss a topic, the more other people will join the conversation. In the event of climate change, the latter leads to what researchers call the “social feeding ring”. It is that episode – or its absence – that my authors Plos one Paper was looking for.
To conduct their research, they analyzed three existing studies by various research teams conducted in 2020 and 2021 in which more than 3,000 people were asked for their beliefs and feelings about climate change. Through investigative studies, the topics answered questions about whether they believe that there is a scientific consensus on the occurrence of global warming; How much they themselves are that global warming is real; Assuming that they accept that it is already real, whether they believe that humans are responsible for it; How worried about global warming; How many risks that the global warming of themselves, their families and societies offer; Whether they believe that global warming is bad or good; How much effort their families and friends make to combat the problem; How important is this action to take; And how often they hear about the phenomenon of global warming in the media. Finally, they were asked about the number of times they discuss global warming with family and friends.
What is not eaten by investigative studies is whether all the initial variables Lead to Discussions – an important measure of causal – or if they are just present side. The new study conducted statistical analyzes of investigative studies to make this decision.
“These investigative studies have not analyzed the impact of independent variables on climate discussion,” said Margaret Or, a doctoral student at the George Mason University Communications Department and the newspaper author. “They just report the results of the survey without looking at any reactions between the variables.”
Through the entire sample collection, the researchers found that all variables except for three variables led to an increase in climate change. Those three who have sparked a few or non -conversation are: How persuaded by the respondents themselves that climate change occurs; Belief in my scientific compatibility as; And the belief that humans cause the problem. These are three strong factors – they should not cause anxiety and conversation. Researchers have an idea of why they did not do so.
One of the possible reasons for these [variables] It says that each of the three factors that do not lead directly to climate talks may lead to anxiety, which in turn may lead to conversations, which in turn may cause conversations, that the lack of important predictions to discuss climate is the possibility of indirect effects.
The more those conversations that take place, the better. “Previous research has shown that people are more likely to take action if they are asked to do so by someone they respect and respect him,” says Ur. “Climate conversations will help in contrast to the cycle of silence: Whenever people realize that others are concerned about climate change and climate work support, the more people talk about it.”
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