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@article{Salomon2017ClimateCH,
  title={Climate Change Helplessness and the (De)moralization of Individual Energy Behavior},
  author={Erika Salomon and Jesse L. Preston and Melanie B. Tannenbaum},
  journal={Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied},
  year={2017},
  volume={23},
  pages={15–28},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:3587153}
}

Investigation of how climate change helplessness—belief that one’s actions cannot affect climate change—can undermine the moralization of climate change and personal energy conservation finds ways to improve climate change messages to foster environmental efficacy and moralized energy use.

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Climate change and moral judgement

E. MarkowitzA. Shariff

Environmental Science, Psychology

2012

Converging evidence from the behavioural and brain sciences suggests that climate change fails to generate strong moral intuitions and therefore it does not stimulate an urgent need for action.…