Climate Adaptation and Green Backlash: How Adaptation Undermines Collective Action for Climate Mitigation

• In Event: How the Environment Shapes Elections

Brief Overview

We study whether climate adaptation can erode the political coalitions needed for climate mitigation. We show that wildfire-prevention blackouts increased household solar and battery adoption while reducing support for green ballot propositions.

Authors

• Nate Clark, University of California, Los Angeles

• Emma Franzblau, University of California, Los Angeles

• Samuel Adrian Mamaril, University of California, Los Angeles

• Yuto Ota, University of California, Los Angeles