Closing the concern-action gap through relational climate conversations: insights from US climate activists
Closing the concern-action gap through relational climate conversations: insights from US climate activists
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10.1007/s44168-022-00027-0
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2022-12-05
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一些研究发现，与气候有关的对话可以成为一种有效的方法，增加对话参与者对气候危机的担忧，并鼓励他们采取集体行动。然而，很少有工作研究气候活动人士是如何进行这样的对话的，气候活动人士是一个在关系组织方面拥有专长的团体。根据对美国各地气候活动人士的调查和半结构化采访，这项分析发现，活动人士经常与朋友和家人进行气候对话，他们中的大多数人在政治上都是进步的，在某种程度上甚至非常关注气候危机。这些发现似乎表明，气候活动人士只与志同道合的其他人进行气候对话，产生了一种回音室效应，可能会加深这一问题的政治两极分化。然而，气候活动人士报告称，选择志同道合的受众的战略原因，如个人反应效率。此外，他们报告说，他们的主要对话目标之一是推动已经关注气候危机的人根据气候正义的价值观采取集体行动。结果确定了集体气候行动的障碍，即使是在忧心忡忡的受众中也是如此，并表明与气候有关的对话对于克服这些障碍可能是有用的。网上版载有补充材料，可在10.1007/s44168022-00027-0查阅。
Several studies have found that relational climate conversations can be an effective method of increasing conversational participants’ concern about the climate crisis and encouraging them to take collective action. However, little work has yet examined how such conversations are practiced by climate activists, a group with expertise in relational organizing. Drawing on surveys and semi-structured interviews with climate activists across the USA, this analysis finds that activists frequently have climate conversations with friends and family, most of whom are politically progressive and somewhat to very concerned about the climate crisis. These findings might seem to suggest that climate activists only have climate conversations with like-minded others, producing an echo chamber effect that could entrench the political polarization of the issue. However, climate activists report strategic reasons for choosing like-minded audiences, such as personal response efficacy. Additionally, they report that one of their primary conversational goals is to move people who are already concerned about the climate crisis to take collective action in accordance with values of climate justice. The results identify obstacles to collective climate action even among concerned audiences and suggest that relational climate conversations can be useful in overcoming these obstacles. The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s44168-022-00027-0.