Traditional moral arguments fail to persuade conservative climate sceptics. Pope Francis' gifting of his climate encyclical to President Trump prior to his leaving the Paris Agreement shows that even a religious leader's persuasive power is constrained by how his message resonates with conservative moral values.
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Landrum, A., Lull, R. Stop preaching to the converted. Nature Clim Change 7, 538–540 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3355
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