Talking in the Present, Caring for the Future: Language and Environment

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Talking in the Present, Caring for the Future: Language and Environment

This paper identifies a new source that explains environmental behaviour: the presence of future tense marking in language. We predict that languages that grammatically mark the future affect speakers’ intertemporal preferences and thereby reduce their willingness to address environmental problems....

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Main Authors:	Mavisakalyan, Astghik, Tarverdi, Yashar, Weber, C.
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Elsevier 2018
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/65476

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