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How the COVID-19 Pandemic Impacted the Perception of Climate Change in the UK
The COVID-19 pandemic erupted during the climate change (CC) crisis, forcing individuals to adapt abruptly to a new scenario, and triggering changes in everyone’s lifestyles. Based on a sample of the UK population (N = 1013), this paper investigates how the COVID-19 pandemic invited/forced individua...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9039586/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00027642221085885 |
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author | Ruiu, Gabriele Ruiu, Maria Laura Ragnedda, Massimo |
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description | The COVID-19 pandemic erupted during the climate change (CC) crisis, forcing individuals to adapt abruptly to a new scenario, and triggering changes in everyone’s lifestyles. Based on a sample of the UK population (N = 1013), this paper investigates how the COVID-19 pandemic invited/forced individuals to reflect upon a more sustainable way of life (which might be enhanced by the use of digital technologies for daily activities) and to (re)consider the anthropogenic impact on the environment. The results show that older individuals tend to be less sceptic around the human impact on CC. Other control variables such as income, gender and employment status have a limited impact on this attitude towards CC. Secondly, the findings indicate a clear separation between those with a minimal level of education, who support the natural origin of CC, while individuals with a higher level of education believe that CC is caused by human actions. Finally, on average, younger and more educated individuals tend to associate the COVID-19 pandemic with an opportunity to promote an eco-friendly world and to adopt an eco-sustainable approach. |
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spelling | pubmed-90395862022-04-27 How the COVID-19 Pandemic Impacted the Perception of Climate Change in the UK Ruiu, Gabriele Ruiu, Maria Laura Ragnedda, Massimo Am Behav Sci Accepted Article The COVID-19 pandemic erupted during the climate change (CC) crisis, forcing individuals to adapt abruptly to a new scenario, and triggering changes in everyone’s lifestyles. Based on a sample of the UK population (N = 1013), this paper investigates how the COVID-19 pandemic invited/forced individuals to reflect upon a more sustainable way of life (which might be enhanced by the use of digital technologies for daily activities) and to (re)consider the anthropogenic impact on the environment. The results show that older individuals tend to be less sceptic around the human impact on CC. Other control variables such as income, gender and employment status have a limited impact on this attitude towards CC. Secondly, the findings indicate a clear separation between those with a minimal level of education, who support the natural origin of CC, while individuals with a higher level of education believe that CC is caused by human actions. Finally, on average, younger and more educated individuals tend to associate the COVID-19 pandemic with an opportunity to promote an eco-friendly world and to adopt an eco-sustainable approach. SAGE Publications 2022-04-24 /pmc/articles/PMC9039586/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00027642221085885 Text en © 2022 SAGE Publications https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Accepted Article Ruiu, Gabriele Ruiu, Maria Laura Ragnedda, Massimo How the COVID-19 Pandemic Impacted the Perception of Climate Change in the UK |
title | How the COVID-19 Pandemic Impacted the Perception of Climate Change in the UK |
title_full | How the COVID-19 Pandemic Impacted the Perception of Climate Change in the UK |
title_fullStr | How the COVID-19 Pandemic Impacted the Perception of Climate Change in the UK |
title_full_unstemmed | How the COVID-19 Pandemic Impacted the Perception of Climate Change in the UK |
title_short | How the COVID-19 Pandemic Impacted the Perception of Climate Change in the UK |
title_sort | how the covid-19 pandemic impacted the perception of climate change in the uk |
topic | Accepted Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9039586/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00027642221085885 |
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