Scientists put the “recycling is a distraction” claim to the test

ScienceDaily reports on research that challenges a familiar concern: that personal climate actions like recycling or eating greener diets might distract from supporting major environmental reforms. A four-year study of nearly twenty-eight hundred Australians found no such distraction — personal habits and political engagement operated independently of one another.

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