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Climate Dialog, Climate Action: Can Democracy Do the Job?

Version 1 : Received: 8 September 2021 / Approved: 13 September 2021 / Online: 13 September 2021 (13:38:27 CEST)

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Phillips, F.Y.; Reimer, L.; Turner, R. Climate Dialog, Climate Action: Can Democracy Do the Job? J. Open Innov. Technol. Mark. Complex. 2022, 8, 31. Phillips, F.Y.; Reimer, L.; Turner, R. Climate Dialog, Climate Action: Can Democracy Do the Job? J. Open Innov. Technol. Mark. Complex. 2022, 8, 31.

Abstract

The latest IPCC report forcefully states that immediate, decisive, and large-scale actions are needed to avert climate catastrophe. This essay presumes that democratic governments are best and most desirably positioned to take these actions. Yet in the countries most pivotal to global climate, significant voting blocs are uninterested in environmental issues. The essay urges adding bottom-up dialog between environmental and anti-environmental voters, to current and future top-down technocratic “solutions.” To make this combination result in a unified pro-environment electorate, we must understand: religious objections to environmentalism; the capital-vs.-knowledge strife that slows polluting corporations’ green transitions; and the psychological mechanisms that can make inter-group dialog fruitful.

Keywords

climate; democracy; religion; evangelism; environment

Subject

Social Sciences, Political Science

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