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Competing Climate Cultures in Germany: Variations in the Collective Denying of Responsibility and Efficacy
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Abstract Despite frequent protests and abounding discussions about the subject, climate action measures to counter human-made climate change have so far remained largely ineffective. By identifying profound climate-cultural differences, Sarah Kessler offers an explanation to this issue and shows that convent... view more
Despite frequent protests and abounding discussions about the subject, climate action measures to counter human-made climate change have so far remained largely ineffective. By identifying profound climate-cultural differences, Sarah Kessler offers an explanation to this issue and shows that conventional assumptions of an implicit consensus on the need to prioritise climate action should be reconsidered. She uncovers climate-cultural variations in (implicit and explicit) denial of climate change and thus challenges existing approaches that treat the German public as a unified entity waiting to be activated by the right kind of rationally convincing information.... view less
Keywords
sustainability; climate change; culture; sociology; environmental policy; nature; social media; environmental sociology; Federal Republic of Germany
Classification
Other Fields of Sociology
Free Keywords
Climate Change Responsibility
Document language
English
Publication Year
2024
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
253 p.
Series
Sociology of Sustainability, 4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839471432
ISSN
2749-2044
ISBN
978-3-8394-7143-2
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed