Creencias ambientales e ideología en población chilena

The global environmental crisis comprises a plurality of social expressions that in Chile, country with energy problems, go from the citizenship rejection to dam construction projects, to the withdrawal of draft law projects concerning the privatization of seeds in parliament. However, it is unknown what are the citizen's environmental beliefs and it's relation with their political and religious ideology, and their eventual pro-environmental behavior. Egocentric and anthropocentric beliefs and environmental behavior are analyzed here in Chilean adults. It is observed that those who ascribe to right political positions as well as those who declare to believe in a religion tend to be more anthropocentric than egocentric. Regardless of their ideology, all participants are unfavorable to the construction of nuclear power plants and are also skeptical that any government could do more than what it has been done so far to protect the environment.