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Trust and turbines: how conspiratorial thinking and wind farm opposition fuel each other

A generalized tendency to believe in secret plots can predict whether someone will oppose the construction of a local wind farm months later. Likewise, coming to oppose that local wind farm can deepen a person’s general conspiratorial worldview over time. These mutually reinforcing perspectives can potentially stall the transition to renewable energy sources if community concerns go unaddressed. The research was recently published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology.

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rumschlumpel
feddit.org

It is also possible that a deeper, underlying trait might be the root cause driving both wind farm opposition and conspiracy beliefs simultaneously. A general disposition to distrust others, for example, could make someone highly susceptible to both phenomena.

More likely, both of these are caused by rightwing ideology, as rightwing propaganda promotes both belief in conspiracy myths and wind farm opposition.

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Hamartiogonicreply
sopuli.xyz

I think there’s an underlying emotional problem that manifests as right-wing ideology and conspiratorial thinking.

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Danarchy
lemmy.nz

So what you can just grow wind and harvest what, air? Like just the air in my lungs? Make it make sense

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