Cover -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of abbreviations -- List of tables -- Preface & -- Acknowledgements -- Summary -- Part I - Introduction -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Lack of consensus on the IPCC consensus -- The need to include inequality -- So what exactly is meant by 'climate‐cultural difference'? -- 1.2 Structure of study -- Part II - Theoretical and methodological framework -- 2 Literature review and theoretical foundations -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Responsibility -- Cumulative responsibility -- Critique of the responsibilisation of the individual -- Moving beyond conceptual and methodological individualism -- Critique of nudging -- Denial of political responsibility for climate action -- The discrepancy between responsibility and efficacy -- 2.3 Efficacy -- Efficacy denied by corporate agents -- NGOs, responsibility and efficacy -- Responsibility according to efficacy -- 'Perceived' versus 'lived' responsibility and efficacy -- 2.4 Ways of knowing -- Information deficit? -- Critique of rationality -- Alternative conceptions of linking knowledge with action -- Compatibility with the everyday -- Knowledge and efficacy -- Bourdieu: Alternative to cognitivism -- 2.5 The social organisation of denial -- Explicit versus implicit denial -- Norgaard on denial of responsibility -- Efficacy and denial -- Norgaard and knowing -- 2.6 Divergent cultures of climate action and denial -- Embodied information practices -- The centrality of everyday life -- Understanding variations in responsibility, efficacy and knowing: The concept of climate cultures -- 2.7 Conclusion -- 3 Methods -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Background -- 3.3 Research design -- 3.4 Expert interview analysis -- 3.5 Media analysis -- Responsibility as relational concept -- 3.6 Focus group interviews with professional groups -- Professional environments as social space.

Using vignettes -- 3.7 Conclusion -- Part III - Empirical findings -- 4 Expert interviews -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Statements concerning responsibility -- 4.3 Statements related to efficacy -- 4.4 Statements about knowing -- 4.5 Statements pointing towards denial -- 4.6 Conclusion -- 5 Media analysis: Public debates about climate change -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Elite climate cultures -- 5.2.1 Elite with individualist tendencies -- 5.2.2 Elite with collectivist orientations -- Collectivist subculture: Emerging elite discourses of activists and influencers -- 5.3 Climate cultures 'from below' -- 5.3.1 Pro‐climate action culture -- 5.3.2 Inaction climate culture(s) -- Subculture I: Sense of inefficacy -- Subculture II: Scepticism -- Subculture III: Denial -- 5.4 Conclusion -- 6 The seven focus group discussions -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 I really don't care what comes out of the plane in terms of CO2 - Craftsmen -- Lived responsibility -- Everyday efficacy -- Embodied information practices -- Extent of denial -- Denial strategies -- 6.3 We only worry about climate change because we are well off - Green startup -- Lived Responsibility -- Everyday efficacy -- Embodied information practices -- Extent of denial -- Denial strategies -- 6.4 There is no [basic human] right to travel by plane - NGO -- Responsibility -- Everyday efficacy -- Embodied information practices -- Extent of denial -- Denial strategies -- 6.5 Climate just exists and cannot be changed - Farmers -- Responsibility -- Everyday efficacy -- Embodied information practices -- Extent of denial -- Denial strategies -- 6.6 I don't think flying per se is as bad as it is always made out to be - Mobility provider -- Responsibility -- Everyday efficacy -- Embodied information -- Extent of denial -- Denial strategies.

6.7 I have not once heard the word 'sustainability' since working here - Industrial enterprise -- Responsibility -- Everyday efficacy -- Embodied information practices -- Extent of denial -- Denial strategies -- 6.8 Flying is indeed something that I don't prohibit for myself - Teachers -- Responsibility -- Everyday efficacy -- Embodied information practices -- Extent of denial -- Denial strategies -- 6.9 Conclusion -- Part IV - Discussion, recommendations and outlook -- 7 Discussion -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Climate action as 'elite project' obscures climate‐cultural diversity -- 'Avoiding CO2 has never been easier' versus 'Rise against Left‐green incitement' -- 7.3 Differentiating climate cultures: Responsibility, efficacy and knowing -- 'Like spiderman: With a lot of power comes a lot of responsibility' -- Decisive discrepancies -- Saving the world with non‐plastic straws? -- 'Knowing' is more than just 'knowing' -- 7.4 Differences in denial -- Climate action and privilege: The fading of conventional socio‐economics and the rise of intersectionality -- 7.5 Policy recommendations -- 7.5.1 Difference -- 7.5.2 Responsibility, Efficacy, Knowing -- 7.5.3 Denial -- 7.6 Outlook -- 8 Conclusion -- References.

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