Environmental Skepticism and Its Impact on Environmental Behaviour in Canada
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Environmental skepticism refers to doubt about the authenticity or severity of environmental threats facing the world today. Using Canadian data from the International Social Survey Program conducted in 2011 and structural equation modelling, this study explores social determinants of environmental skepticism and its impact on environmental behaviour. Cognitive bias, generalized trust, and competing concern theories are found to be effective in explaining why some Canadians are more skeptical than others. Certain worldviews (a high level of religiosity, conservative political ideology), lack of trust in general society, and competing non-environmental concerns are three key factors underlying environmental skepticism in Canada. This study further finds that environmental skepticism has a real impact on individuals' environmental behaviour. It inhibits both the adoption of environmentally friendly lifestyles and engagement in environmentalist activism. Environmental skepticism thus can be a serious barrier to building an environmentally sustainable society in Canada.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it