A new paper in Journal of Environmental Psychology authored by our lab members!
Political conservatism is associated with lower climate change concern; however, little is known about the extent to which this political polarisation in climate concern varies across countries and time. We analysed survey data from 54 countries over 30 years, encompassing nearly 285,000 participants. Overall, the size of the negative relationship between conservatism and concern increased over time. Importantly, increasing affluence (i.e., greater GDP per capita) was associated with increasingly negative relationships between political conservatism and climate change concern, even after controlling for per capita CO2 emission, education, and wealth inequality. Political polarisation in climate change concern was also greater among countries with greater per capita CO2 emissions (suggesting a role for fossil fuel reliance) but was not associated with within-country increases in emissions across time. These analyses provide a broader global and temporal perspective on climate change concern than is possible from cross-sectional analyses of individual polls.
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Read the article here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/…/pii/S0272494425000623…
