Someone did a study, and came up with a dandy idea
(Huffington Post) How do you persuade someone to take action on climate change?
Conventional wisdom says to convince people that it’s their duty to recycle more, drive less or eat fewer burgers. But that might not be the best motivator, according to a new study from researchers at The University of California, San Diego.
Instead, if people believe climate change to be an issue of collective responsibility — that is, if they think it’s caused by a global reliance on fossil fuels, for instance — they’re more likely to actually do something about it.
Interesting. But, this is the way Warmists have been positioning anthropogenic climate change for decades, that we’re all doomed and that we all need to Do Something. Yet, even among those who believe heavily in AGW, there is little action within their own lives.
Environmental activists have tended to assume that appeals to personal responsibility would get people fired up about slowing the rapid pace of climate change, Obradovich added. Convincing people to contribute to a climate change campaign or reduce their carbon footprint meant asking them to think about how their everyday behaviors — how they eat, get around or use electricity — might be contributing to the problem.
But when Obradovich asked participants in his study to think about climate change in collective terms, he found that their donations to a pro-climate advocacy organization jumped by 50 percent.
In other words, Warmists are happy to pony up a bit of money so that Other People can do something, because they damned sure won’t change their own modern big carbon footprint lives.
