Climate security
Most people have experienced firsthand the futility of trying to convince someone to change their political beliefs. It may often seem like these beliefs are held largely outside the realm of evidence and logic. In the case of climate change, that may be because they are. According to a 2016 study by the Pew Research Center, scientific knowledge has almost no effect on beliefs related to climate change. It’s something else entirely. While 92 percent of Democrats with high levels of scientific knowledge attributed climate change to human activity, just 23 percent of Republicans with the same level of knowledge did. Science has proven a largely ineffective method to convince skeptics of the reality of climate change, but a more thorough look at why science has failed in this arena may illuminate another, more effective approach.
Most people have experienced firsthand the futility of trying to convince someone to change their political beliefs. It may often seem like these beliefs are held largely outside the realm of evidence and logic. In the case of climate change, that may be because they are. According to a 2016 study by the Pew Research Center, scientific knowledge has almost no effect on beliefs related to climate change. It’s something else entirely. While 92 percent of Democrats with high levels of scientific knowledge attributed climate change to human activity, just 23 percent of Republicans with the same level of knowledge did. Science has proven a largely ineffective method to convince skeptics of the reality of climate change, but a more thorough look at why science has failed in this arena may illuminate another, more effective approach.
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