The spillover of race and racial attitudes into public opinion about climate change

Benegal, Salil

doi:10.1080/09644016.2018.1457287

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“…Therefore, it seems plausible that the indirect effects of humanistic altruism come largely through symbolic racism. Finally, our sense that this is a robust finding is bolstered by the consistency of our results with those of Chanin (2018) and Benegal (2018), who used different measures of environmental concern and pro-environmental behavior in nationally representative samples.…”

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“…Substantial literature in political science has examined the influence of views about minorities, often called symbolic racism, in shaping policy support and political attitudes. In a representative sample of US adults, Chanin (2018) has shown that symbolic racism reduces environmental concern and self-reported willingness to take action to protect the environment and Benegal (2018) finds a link between racism and a lack of concern about climate change. We conjecture that symbolic racism may also play a role in support for collective action to protect water.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Social Support for Water Quality: The Influence of Values and Symbolic Racism

Dietz¹,

Duan²,

Nalley³

et al. 2018

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Many communities, especially minority communities, have to deal with contaminated water supplies. Remediating such risks is usually expensive, so requires action from state and/or federal governments. In turn, this requires political support for provision of a collective good, an altruistic action. We use data from a Mechanical Turk convenience sample to examine the influence of values and beliefs on donations to remediate water quality, using actual donations to an environmental group as our dependent variable. We find that views about minorities are the strongest predictor of donations, with symbolic racism-beliefs that minorities have received advantageous treatment-substantially reducing donations. In addition, altruistic values have an indirect effect of increasing the likelihood of donating while selfinterested values reduce donations. It appears that support for collective action on water quality is closely tied with both altruism and racial views, suggesting links between research on environmental justice and on environmental decision-making.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Social Support for Water Quality: The Influence of Values and Symbolic Racism

Dietz¹,

Duan²,

Nalley³

et al. 2018

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“…Evidence suggests that many universalistic reforms, such as expanding healthcare access for all citizens, are often perceived by whites as delivering unfair benefits to people of color (Maxwell and Shields, 2014). Even basic views about the reality of climate change are increasingly predicted by our attitudes about race (Benegal, 2018). Our politics have become so polarized that a whole range of superficially non-racial political and scientific issues are thoroughly intertwined with beliefs and biases about race (and about gender and other social categories!).…”

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Individual and Structural Interventions

Madva¹

2020

An Introduction to Implicit Bias

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not to be included in print version for metadata only): Given all that we have learned about bias and injustice, what can we do-and what should we do-to fight back? Chapter 12 introduces empirically-tested interventions for combating implicit (and explicit) bias and promoting a fairer world, from small daily-life debiasing tricks to larger structural interventions. Along the way, this chapter raises a range of moral, political, and strategic questions about these interventions, and stresses the importance of admitting that we don't yet have all the answers. We must encourage intellectual humility and dedicate ourselves to gathering as much knowledge as possible.Changing the world is hard. Changing it for the better is usually harder than changing it for the worse. But why is positive change so difficult? Some answers are familiar. First, it's hard to get people to care, especially about problems in different places (physically or socially distant neighborhoods or countries) that don't confront us every day. Second, people are, understandably, wrapped up in pursuing personal goals (careers, families, hobbies). Third, and closely related to the first two reasons, many people feel like their votes and voices don't matter because the system is rigged (by corporate donors, gerrymandered voting districts, etc.) to make their political efforts pointless. Fourth, making change to promote equality is especially hard, because the haves are typically motivated to hold onto their advantages, and even to see their advantages as fair. Even the have-nots are easily hoodwinked into thinking that their disadvantages are fair when they're not (Jost, 2015). We derive comfort from believing we live in a merit-based society where, as long as you work hard enough, put your head down, and don't rile up political trouble, then your personal and professional life will go well. Fifth, people may (especially for certain jobs: maybe I don't want to hire someone convicted of decades of accounting fraud to be my accountant). But the result is that ex-offenders have a very hard time finding gainful employment, which in turn makes them more likely to become desperate to make ends meet, and then to re-offend and end up back in prison.Some ex-offenders have it worse than others. In one field study in Milwaukee, the odds of getting a callback for an interview were 34% for white male applicants with no criminal record but only 17% for white men with a criminal record. Moreover, the odds were 14% for black male applicants without a record, but only 5% for black men with a record (Pager, 2003).The first finding to note is that white men with a record had slightly better odds than black men without. Two follow-up studies in New York City found much the same: white applicants who had literally just gotten out of prison were slightly more likely to get a callback or job offer than black and Latinx applicants with spotless records (Pager et al., 2009). These studies illustrate how devastating a criminal record can be for anyone's job prospects, but espec...

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“…One camp grounds skepticism in deliberate attempts to mislead the public on the part of industry-sponsored, right wing think tanks (Bohr, 2016;Dunlap & Jacques, 2013;Jacques, Dunlap, & Freeman, 2008;Oreskes, 2011). Others focus more on the identifying predictors of skepticism such as race and racism (Benegal, 2018;McCright & Dunlap, 2011), belief in free market principles (Cook & Lewandowsky, 2016;Hart & Nisbet, 2012), or other conspiratorial views (Lewandowsky, Oberauer, & Gignac, 2013). Certain strains of this literature appear more about confrontational shaming of skeptics'…”

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Geohumanities and climate change skepticism

Schlosser

2018

Geography Compass

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The voices of the climate “skeptics” or “deniers” are an unavoidable component of the current politics of climate change. Geographers have engaged with the politics of climate science, the dissemination of scientific knowledge, and how the dominant discourse of climate science frames the debate as apolitical, but they have not directed much attention to climate skeptic literature itself. I suggest that despite this lacunae, geographers have developed the necessary tools to understand climate skeptic literature as neither simply ignorance nor intentionally deceitful—at least not always. I further suggest that the burgeoning literature on “geohumanities,” along with its intellectual predecessors in geography, is particularly adept at reading how the skeptic literature narrates the relationship between knowledge, power, and space. I focus my attention on several prominent texts in the climate skeptic literature—not to vindicate them but to understand their ideological premises.

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The spillover of race and racial attitudes into public opinion about climate change

Cited by 60 publications

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Social Support for Water Quality: The Influence of Values and Symbolic Racism

Social Support for Water Quality: The Influence of Values and Symbolic Racism

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