Många mänskliga aktiviteter skapar miljöproblem som kan resultera i irreversibla och allvarligakonsekvenser för allt levande. Kognitiva, emotionella och ekonomiska barriärer utgör en grogrund förmiljörelaterad skepsis och förnekelse. Denna studie fokuserar på till vilken grad svenska män respektivekvinnor är skeptiska eller förnekar i förhållande till miljöproblem. Andra studier som gjorts kring detta visarpå att män är något mer skeptiska och förnekar något mer i förhållande till miljöproblem än kvinnor.Metoderna som använts i denna studie är enkät och kompletterande semi-strukturerade intervjuer. Det totalaresultatet bekräftar i stort sätt de andra studiernas resultat och lyder att män i något högre grad än kvinnorförnekar och är skeptiska i relation till miljöproblem. / Many human activities cause environmental issues that can result in irreversible and serious consequencesfor all living things. Cognitive, emotional and economic barriers constitute a hotbed for environmentalskepticism and denial. In this study, the focus is on the degree to which Swedish men and women areskeptical or in denial in relation to environmental issues. Other studies concerning this show that men aresomewhat more skeptical and deny somewhat more in relation to environmental issues than women. Themethods used in this study is a questionnaire and additional semi-structured interviews. The overall resultconfirms by and large the results of the other studies concerning this and shows that men are somewhat morelikely than women to deny and to be skeptical in relation to environmental issues.

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The climate change skepticism has been becoming a more and more distinct and apparently increasing social phenomenon. To date, western scholars have described the different forms it can take and the factors supporting its increase. In the recent years, we've been observing some signs of a similar trend in the Czech Republic because the number of people who find the anthropogenic climate changes significant has been decreasing and the proportion of the "skeptic population" has been growing. Although in the first part of this paper I present an overview of data concerning the "public climate change skepticism" (available poll data), its primary focus is on the research of activities carried out by individuals and groups that relativize the importance of climate changes constantly, publically and in a more or less organized manner. In such case we can talk about a certain form of a countermovement against the environmentalism and the mainstream climatology. This paper draws mainly from a qualitative study conducted between 2011 and 2014 by means of semi-structured interviews with active Czech climate change skeptics. The goal of the study was to describe the strategies of climate change skeptics actions in the changing political and discursive environment, the forms of their organization and the...

Climate change denial is a widely spread phenomenon in the United States that has for decades shaped the country's response to the numerous environmental challenges it has been facing. This thesis deals with the role of the American fossil fuels lobby in the analyzed matter, as it constituted the main force behind its rise. The main goal of the thesis is to prove that the success of the climate change denial orchestrated by the fossil fuels industry was enabled by its ties to the political establishment. Moreover, it argues that this was done by using professionally drafted strategies, which turned a once-widely-accepted fact - backed by a scientific consensus - into a matter of debate, opinion, politics, ideology, and identity. In order to do that, the thesis firstly covers the historical development of the climate debate in the United Sates. It looks at the major milestones in the country's approach in dealing with the problem of the environment as well as the emergence of the climate change denial campaign itself. Secondly, it analyzes the various connections between U.S. politics, special interests, and climate science from the 1970s until the end of the George W. Bush Administration. Next, it introduces the specific tactics and methods employed by the climate change denial campaign. Moreover,...