Competing Climate Cultures in Germany

Download or read book Competing Climate Cultures in Germany written by Sarah Kessler and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2024-03-31 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite frequent protests and abounding discussions about the subject, climate action measures to counter human-made climate change have so far remained largely ineffective. By identifying profound climate-cultural differences, Sarah Kessler offers an explanation to this issue and shows that conventional assumptions of an implicit consensus on the need to prioritise climate action should be reconsidered. She uncovers climate-cultural variations in (implicit and explicit) denial of climate change and thus challenges existing approaches that treat the German public as a unified entity waiting to be activated by the right kind of rationally convincing information.