The video from the first EXIST seminar, Trust and the Environment: What It Takes to Believe in the Solutions, with Malcolm Fairbrother is now published, watch and share below and on CEMUS social media!
YouTube link: https://youtu.be/sTaOfOM9Euw
Moderated by Martha Middlemiss Lé Mon, CRS. Recorded at the Blåsenhus Recording Studio, Uppsala University, February 6, 2025.
The Existential, Environmental Humanities seminar, EXIST, is a collaboration between CEMUS, Centre for Environment and Development Studies, CRS, Centre for Multidisciplinary Research on Religion and Society, CHS, Centre for Health and Sustainability, and Sofia Oreland, Department of Theology, Uppsala University.
February 6 at 12.00-13.00
Malcolm Fairbrother Trust and the Environment: What It Takes to Believe in the Solutions
Moderated by Martha Middlemiss Lé Mon, CRS
People around the world are concerned about climate change and other environmental problems, and want their governments to do something about them. But public support for many policies that experts recommend is low. The reason, I will argue, is predominantly a lack of trust. Drawing on data from a variety of studies, I will show that people with a high level of trust in their country’s political and administrative leaders and systems tend to support the enactment of more climate and environmental policies, but people with low levels of trust tend to be opposed. This includes even potential new institutions for the better representation of future generations.
Bio
Malcolm Fairbrother is a professor of sociology at Uppsala University, Sweden, and a researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm. Originally from Vancouver, Canada, he received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley (USA), worked in England for ten years, and has also been a visiting researcher at institutions in Mexico, Spain, and Italy. Using both qualitative and quantitive methods, his research is about the politics of environmental protection, long-term policymaking, economic globalization, and social and political trust.
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