Motivating climate action through cultural impact

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English - March 11, 2024 11:00 - 9 minutes - 6.6 MB
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Weight lifter David Katoatau has already lost his home in Kiribati to coastal erosion, and faces the loss of his whole country to rising sea levels. Dancing at the 2016 Summer Olympics didn't stop the tides, but it grabbed attention across the world regarding his country's imminent fate, and raised awareness of the damages climate change is already having around the globe.

Researchers from Singapore Management University led by Professor Angela Leung, and her collaborator Prof Kevin Tam from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology are studying whether awareness of how climate change affects human cultures motivates people to support policies and take action to mitigate its effects.

Are some groups of people more aware than others? And does awareness prompt people to engage in climate change activism?

Read the original research: http://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-022-03337-8