"Stuff white people like: denying climate change" (Note they're specifying white conservative men)

[OneGrassRoot]

Brilliant :)




There's a study running soon in the journal Global Environmental Change called "Cool dudes: The denial of climate change among conservative white males in the United States." It analyzes poll and survey data from the last 10 years and finds that ... are you sitting down? ... conservative white men are far more likely to deny the threat of climate change than other people.

OK, that's no surprise to anyone who's been awake over the last decade. But the paper goes beyond that to put forward some theories about why conservative white men (CWM) are so loathe to accept climate change. The explanation is some mix of the following, all of which overlap in various ways:

First there's the "white male effect" -- generally speaking, white males are less concerned with a variety of risks. This probably has to do with the fact that they are less exposed to risk than other demographics, what with running things and all.

Then, as Chris Mooney notes, there's the "social dominance orientation" of conservatives, who see social life as following the law of the jungle. One's choice is to dominate or be dominated; that is the natural order of things. Such folk are leery of climate change solutions premised on fairness or egalitarianism.


Full article here: http://www.grist.org/climate-skeptics/2011-08-02-stuff-white-people-like-denying-climate-change

[Kurmudgeon]

1. Headline would have been truer if you replaced white with conservative.

[left coaster]

2. Agreed. Wrong group being broad brushstroked in the headline. nt

[OneGrassRoot]

3. True, but it's not my article, so I didn't think I should change theirs...

though I'll see if I can still edit to add my own caveat)

:shrug:

[OneGrassRoot]

4. and....

I think it's a play on words about a play or books or something called "What white people like."

No time to look it up.

I think they were being facetious and assumed other progressives would "get" it and not be offended by title.

Obviously, they were wrong, at least at DU.

[Kurmudgeon]

7. Wasn't offended, was just sayin.....

[pansypoo53219]

5. THEY DON'T WANT TO CHANGE THEIR WAYS.

they are afraid of adapting. OMG they want the old light bulbs! THEY LOVE DISPOSABLE.

[raouldukelives]

6. They don't want to consider the impact they have

It puts a damper on your excitement of owning the newest super truck or jetting off to Rio for the weekend when you consider the consequences for future generations. Best to just keep blasting forward into oblivion and say to hell with the children of tomorrow.