Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Can Rev Sociol. 2024 May;61(2):110-130. doi: 10.1111/cars.12467. Epub 2024 Mar 27.
This paper provides a longitudinal social network and content analysis of Canadian think tanks affiliated with the Atlas network, analyzing their efforts to obstruct climate action over the last two decades. Network analysis reveals extensive and deepening board interlocks and joint memberships between these think tanks and the fossil fuel industry, other policy-planning organizations within and beyond Canada, and academic institutions. Consistent with and rooted in network ties, Atlas members produce a large and growing volume of climate-related content, including content that denies the reality and impacts of climate change, promotes and defends the fossil fuel sector, and opposes climate policy and action. Atlas affiliates are argued to be at the core of a reactionary segment of Canada's elite policy-planning network opposed to virtually all forms of climate action, while the frames and campaigns they deploy are seen as a force obstructing progress on climate change.
本文对与阿特拉斯网络有关联的加拿大智库进行了纵向社会网络和内容分析，分析了它们在过去二十年中阻挠气候行动的努力。网络分析揭示了这些智库与化石燃料行业、加拿大内外的其他政策规划组织以及学术机构之间广泛而深入的董事会互锁和联合成员关系。与网络联系一致并扎根于此的是，阿特拉斯成员产生了大量且不断增长的与气候相关的内容，包括否认气候变化的现实和影响、促进和捍卫化石燃料部门以及反对气候政策和行动的内容。有人认为，阿特拉斯的分支机构是加拿大精英政策规划网络中反对几乎所有形式气候行动的反动部分的核心，而他们部署的框架和运动被视为阻碍气候变化进展的一股力量。
