“There is some sort of unconscious risk calculation going on there, kind of like…Should we really do all these changes? Are the risks so high?…Social dominance orientation comes into play here. Based on this risk allocation, they think that, ‘Hmm, it sounds quite horrible, but I don’t think that I will be the one who would suffer if it’s true.’…Future generations will suffer. Animals will suffer. And people in, for example, developing countries and in islands and so on, are already suffering because of climate change.” But if white American men who buy the zero-sum story don’t see themselves
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