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Building Consensus for Ambitious Climate Action Through the World Climate Simulation


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dc.creatorRooney-Varga, Juliette
dc.creatorHensel, Margaret
dc.creatorMcCarthy, Carolyn
dc.creatorMcNeal, Karen
dc.creatorNorfles, Nicole
dc.creatorRath, Kenneth
dc.creatorSchnell, Audrey
dc.creatorSterman, John
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-14T19:07:24Z
dc.date.available2023-01-14T19:07:24Z
dc.date.created2021
dc.identifier10.1029/2021EF002283en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2021EF002283en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://aurora.auburn.edu/handle/11200/50480
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.35099/aurora-548
dc.description.abstractSociopolitical values are an important driver of climate change beliefs, attitudes, and policy preferences. People with individualist-hierarchical values favor individual freedom, competition, and clearly defined social hierarchies, while communitarian-egalitarians value interdependence and equality across gender, age, heritage, and ethnicity. In the US, individualist-hierarchs generally perceive less risk from climate change and express lower support for actions to mitigate it than communitarian-egalitarians. Exposure to scientific information does little to change these views. Here, we ask if a widely used experiential simulation, World Climate, can help overcome these barriers. World Climate combines an engaging role-play with an interactive computer model of the climate system. We examine pre- and post-World Climate survey responses from 2,080 participants in the US and use a general linear mixed model approach to analyze interactions among participants' sociopolitical values and gains in climate change knowledge, affect, and intent to take action. As expected, prior to the simulation, participants holding individualist-hierarchical values had lower levels of climate change knowledge, felt less urgency, and expressed lower intent to act than those holding communitarian-egalitarian values. However, individualist-hierarchs made significantly larger gains across all constructs, particularly urgency, than communitarian-egalitarians. Participants' sociopolitical values also shifted: those with individualistic-hierarchical values before the simulation showed a substantial, statistically significant shift toward a communitarian-egalitarian worldview. Simulation-based experiences like World Climate may help reduce polarization and build consensus towards science-based climate action.en_US
dc.formatPDFen_US
dc.publisherAmerican Geophysical Unionen_US
dc.relation.ispartofEARTHS FUTUREen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries2328-4277en_US
dc.rights©American Geophysical Union 2021. This is this the version of record co-published by the American Geophysical Union and John Wiley & Sons, Inc. It is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Item should be cited as: Rooney‐Varga, Juliette N., et al. "Building consensus for ambitious climate action through the World Climate simulation." Earth's Future 9.12 (2021): e2021EF002283.en_US
dc.titleBuilding Consensus for Ambitious Climate Action Through the World Climate Simulationen_US
dc.typeTexten_US
dc.type.genreJournal Article, Academic Journalen_US
dc.citation.volume9en_US
dc.citation.issue12en_US
dc.citation.spagee2021EF002283en_US
dc.description.statusPublisheden_US
dc.description.peerreviewYesen_US

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