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Examinando como as Projeções Sobre o Futuro da Sociedade São Relacionadas com as Ações Atuais de Combate às Mudanças Climáticas

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: Global climate change will affect all domains of person-environment relations. Tackling climate change will require social change that can be motivated by people’s imaginings of the future of their society where such social change has occurred. We use the “collective futures” framework to examine whether beliefs about the future of society are related to present-day intentions to take climate change action. Participants from two Brazilian samples imagined their society in 2050 where climate change was mitigated and then rated how this future society would differ from Brazilian society today in terms of societal-level dysfunction and development and personal-level traits and values. To the extent that participants believed preventing climate change would result in societal development and more competence traits, they were more willing to engage in environmental citizenship activities. Individual differences in future time perspective also impacted environmental citizenship intention. Societal development and consideration of future consequences seem to be distinct routes by which future thinking influence climate change action.

Source: Psico

DOI: 10.15448/1980-8623.2014.3.17336

Authors: Taciano L Milfont, Paul G Bain, Roosevelt V. L. Souza, Valdiney V Gouveia, Yoshihisa Kashima

Institutions: Victoria University of Wellington, The University of Queensland, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, The University of Melbourne

Language: Portuguese

Topic: Climate Change Communication and Perception

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Climate action

Open Access status: diamond

Funders: Royal Society, Royal Society Te Apārangi, Australian Research Council