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Willingness to Engage in Nonviolent Civil Disobedience
Provided by: Nature
Scientific Reports
1112AP
Synopsis
In this report, students will learn about factors that correlate with the likelihood that individuals will participate in nonviolent civil disobedience for climate change.
Students will learn how media bias, climate emotions, beliefs about climate change, and other factors correlate with nonviolent civil disobedience.
Authors: Patrick O. Ansah, Nicholas Badullovich, Teresa Myers, John Kotcher, Seth A. Rosenthal, Anthony Leiserowitz & Edward Maibach , npj Climate Action
This report defines a few of the content-specific terms within the text, making it easier for students to follow along.
This report includes data tables to support students' understanding.
Prerequisites
Students should understand climate change and be familiar with climate-related civic action.
The vocabulary in this report is advanced and content-specific. Students may need some terms defined before they read.
Teachers may want to familiarize students with examples of nonviolent civil disobedience and with environmentalists mentioned in the report, such as Greta Thunberg.
Differentiation & Implementation
Many students may benefit from analyzing this resource alongside this report, especially focusing on the demographics and the trends in the data based on political party association.
Students can focus on and analyze the Methods section to understand how a study like this is designed.
Highlighting the section on climate-related emotions, such as hope and anger, teachers can ask students to think about or journal about their own emotions associated with climate change. Teachers may want to use this lesson to facilitate this exploration.
Teachers can use this resource to make connections to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, especially Goal 13, Climate Action. Teachers can also discuss how civic disobedience may be used to achieve some of the other SDGs.
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