Impeding ecological sustainability through selective moral disengagement

被引:87
作者
Bandura, Albert [1 ]
机构
[1] Stanford Univ, Dept Psychol, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
关键词
consumptive lifestyles; collective efficacy; environmental ethics; moral agency; moral disengagement; population growth; psychosocial change; self-efficacy; token gestures;
D O I
10.1504/IJISD.2007.016056
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
The present paper documents the influential role played by selective moral disengagement for social practices that cause widespread human harm and degrade the environment. Disengagement of moral self-sanctions enables people to pursue detrimental practices freed from the restraint of self-censure. This is achieved by investing ecologically harmful practices with worthy purposes through social, national, and economic justifications; enlisting exonerative comparisons that render the practices righteous; use of sanitising and convoluting language that disguises what is being done; reducing accountability by displacement and diffusion of responsibility; ignoring, minimising, and disputing harmful effects; and dehumanising and blaming the victims and derogating the messengers of ecologically bad news. These psychosocial mechanisms operate at both the individual and social systems levels.
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