Climate change skepticism and resistance aren't the same thing. In fact the majority of "climate change skeptics" aren't the same thing as the dictionary definition of a skeptic.
It's funny that someone so critical of the media uses misleading headlines like the media love. Too funny. :lol:
Though to be fair you probably just lifted the title from whatever site you found the story on.
It's may not be published yet, the link does lead to an abstract with a click on her presentation title:
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Climate change and cultural inertia
R. Brulle2, R. Haluza-DeLay1, K. Norgaard 3
1The King's University College, Canada, 2Drexel University, USA, 3University of Oregon, USA
While climate scientists have provided increasing consensus on climate change, the logical implications of climate science regarding the need for immediate and aggressive policy measures to reduce emissions are being met with intellectual and political silence even among the public that accepts the science of global climate change. Instead, a series of partial half measures have been proposed, which though they may be comforting, are essentially symbolic. In this paper we use the work of Bourdieu together with ethnographic and interview data to develop a model of cultural inertia as a social process operating across spheres of the individual, social interaction, culture and institutions. We describe how given our position in a socio-historical trajectory of energy use, mobility and abundance, habits of mind and social practice are shaped by pervasive cultural forces and the interplay of existing social institutions and psychologies are at odds with climate change or new environmental paradigms. The disjuncture between our taken-for-granted way of living and socio-ecological conditions – such as the new behaviors necessitated by climate change – is experienced at the individual level as an identity threat, at the institutional level as a challenge to social cohesion, and at the societal level as a legitimation threat. Using ethnographic and interview data we describe the powerful processes that work at the psychological, institutional, and societal levels to maintain the current orientations and ensure social stability in spite of the evident imperative for change. This model that actions are needed to engage transformations at all levels of the social order. We conclude with some suggestions for further investigations and practical suggestions about actions to address climate change.
