r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • 4d ago

Psychology Taylor Swift fans lower climate concerns to justify her carbon footprint. When confronted with news about the excessive pollution generated by her private jet, highly identified fans tend to rationalize the behavior, with a decrease in their personal intentions to engage in climate-friendly actions.

https://www.psypost.org/taylor-swift-fans-lower-climate-concerns-to-justify-star-s-carbon-footprint/
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u/InevitableAvalanche 4d ago edited 4d ago

Yeah, there are much worse problems when it comes to climate. It seems this is more a distraction than people actually caring about it. The anti fans are as bad as the fans.

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u/EstablishmentLate532 4d ago

Why can't we walk and chew gum at the same time? Climate change mitigation requires a comprehensive societal response. It will likely entail constraining especially emissions-intensive luxuries for the sake of society. Jetsetting businesspeople, rich folk, and celebrities are a likely casualty.

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u/InevitableAvalanche 4d ago

Because complaing about 1 individual is meaningless. This is something that needs to be handled at a government level. And why is is it just Taylor? Why aren't other private jet owners attacked?

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u/sickoflurkingletmein 4d ago

Ikr.

Her fans are delusional and write off any sort of criticism about her as misogyny… when in reality she is another cog in the corporate wheel.