We argue that such resistance may be driven by moral responsibility, where citizens prefer to tackle the environmental problems that they have caused by themselves, rather than delegating the task to others by means of a market mechanism.
What this tells me is that while a majority of companies have aspirations to engage with clean energy, and while those aspirations are driven by corporate responsibility, it is the economics that convert aspirations to actions.
Furthermore, global centers of politic and economic power such as the World Bank or the IMF still endorse a body of economic theory that promotes minimal government intervention driven by fiscal responsibility and deficit reduction, mainly by means of spending cuts and consumption tax increases.
It shows that a party claiming to be driven by fiscal responsibility will forsake its core values in pursuit of ideological zealotry and partisan obstructionism.
Kevin Duffy, of Bluemoose Books in Hebden Bridge, who has worked in publishing for 25 years, said small independents were driven by different responsibilities from the larger publishers.
We present survey evidence that shows a willingness to act alone is not the result of misunderstanding the collective nature of the climate problem, but rather people are driven by notions of responsibility, morality and global leadership.
When the university's board of trustees met to debate the future of the Joe Paterno statue outside the football stadium, the discussion was not driven by sense of responsibility to the victims, but was rather it "centered on how the NCAA [would] interpret whatever decision [was] made".
PEPFAR is driven by a shared responsibility among donor and partner nations and others to make smart investments to save lives.
We should be driven by the moral responsibility entrusted upon us and ensure that mosques, churches and temples are safe places for children".
