There's evidence that global warming creates fertile ground for political strongmen to come to power.
  • Flying SquidMEnglish
    21•2 months ago

    If that were the case, climate change caused the entire Roman Empire, the Chinese empire, the Mayans, the Songhai, all of feudalism…

    • @njm1314English
      6•2 months ago

      Changing climate did have a major impact on all of those Empires though.

      • @SlopppyEngineerEnglish
        2•2 months ago

        Usually it’s a combination with dysfunctional politics, war, resource depletion and climate change.

        • @njm1314English
          1•2 months ago

          Not entirely sure climate change couldn’t just be argued to be the cause of all the others there.

          • @SlopppyEngineerEnglish
            1•2 months ago

            You can have succession wars, incompetent inbred rulers and overexploitation without any climate change. But climate change would make it more likely to happen and make the outcome worse.

    • @[email protected]English
      -5•2 months ago

      Who upvotes this nonsense? lol.

      The causes of problems today are not necessarily the causes of problems for mayans, ancient romans, etal. It’s sad that I have to say this.

  • @[email protected]English
    14•2 months ago

    Or maybe a broken political and economic system is causing a gathering of wealth in the hands of the 1% which is a major factor behind both climate change and increasing authoritarianism

    • @SlopppyEngineerEnglish
      3•2 months ago

      Any system will become broken is the same way. The top always gets greedy.

  • @morphballganonEnglish
    4•2 months ago

    You got it backwards mate

    Authoritarianism enables climate change, not the other way around

  • @[email protected]English
    2•2 months ago

    It was 9/11 butterfly effect. The US’s wars caused a refugee crisis, xenophobes across North America and Europe got their panties in a bunch about all the new brown people, turned to nationalism. New (and popular) authoritarian anti terrorism laws probably didn’t help either.

  • Jerkface (any/all)English
    2•2 months ago

    I have had the belief for a few years that the rise of fascism is an emotional response to being afraid of an uncertain future that people feel like they have no power over.