Psychological factors influencing laypersons’ acceptance of climate engineering, climate change mitigation and business as usual scenarios

[Andrew Lockley]

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160791X1930137X

Psychological factors influencing laypersons’ acceptance of climate engineering, climate change mitigation and business as usual scenarios

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2019.101222

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Highlights

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Mitigation scenarios are more accepted than business as usual or climate engineering scenarios to combat climate change.

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Concerning climate engineering, bio-energy with carbon capture and storage is preferred over stratospheric aerosol injection.

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Technology acceptance is driven by situational judgements like affective responses, perceived fairness or trust.

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Mitigation acceptance depends more on problem perception, eco-friendly attitudes and relativization of climate change threats.

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Subjective norms are highly relevant for the acceptance of all scenarios.