In a recent report titled, “Believing in climate change, but not behaving sustainably: Evidence from a one-year longitudinal study” Cornell assistant professor Neil A. Lewis Jr., and University of Michigan researchers Michael P. Hall and Phoebe C. Ellsworth, discovered that the more alarmist you are about the climate, the less you do personally to “help it.”
The “highly concerned” cluster was “most supportive of government climate policies, but least likely to report individual-level actions, whereas the ‘Skeptical’ opposed policy solutions but were most likely to report engaging in individual-level pro-environmental behaviors,” the researchers concluded.
The majority of Climate Alarmists are the Democrat socialist types who are notorious slobs. Their marches, parades, and activism leave behind mountains of trash and often destruction of property. So it doesn’t really surprise me that the climate cultists not only support more government action, they wash their own hands of any personal responsibility beyond that activism.
“Belief in climate change predicted support for government policies to combat climate change, but did not generally translate to individual-level, self-reported pro-environmental behavior,” said the paper.
Why? Even the researchers were stumped, although it’s possible that skeptics may place more emphasis on personal responsibility than government action. …
As Pacific Standard’s Tom Jacobs put it, “remember that conservatism prizes individual action over collective efforts.”
“So while they may assert disbelief in order to stave off coercive (in their view) actions by the government, many could take pride in doing what they can do on a personal basis,” he said in a Friday post.
I recycle, but not to save the planet. I do it because it makes sense as a cost-effective way to address waste management. Removing that material can provide someone else with the opportunity to reuse it but excluding that weight from tipping fees lowers the cost of town government.
I also try to pick up after myself or take responsibility for my actions because that is good stewardship of society in general and a valuable lesson to pass on to future generations.
Being self-reliant makes you less of a burden. Being liberal is based on creating more burden, which might explain why they want someone else not just to do the work but to pay for it.
