There's evidence that global warming creates fertile ground for political strongmen to come to power.
  • @[email protected]English
    12•13 hours 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•11 hours ago

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

  • @morphballganonEnglish
    4•10 hours ago

    You got it backwards mate

    Authoritarianism enables climate change, not the other way around

  • Flying SquidMEnglish
    21•19 hours ago

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

    • @njm1314English
      5•12 hours ago

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

      • @SlopppyEngineerEnglish
        2•11 hours ago

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

        • @njm1314English
          1•11 hours ago

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

          • @SlopppyEngineerEnglish
            1•10 hours 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
      7•16 hours ago

      Scared people want strong leaders (a daddy) to tell them it’s okay, it’s not the climate, it’s the queers, migrants, etc. And Daddy’s going to fix it.

      Blame may not be the right word. But the destruction of our environment and everything that goes with it, certainly gives authoritarianism an opening.

      Judith Butler goes pretty deep into this in Who’s Afraid of Gender? Of course their analysis focuses mostly on how gender queer people end up being targeted. But the unnamed fear of climate destruction is a big factor. And trans people one of many scapegoats for power hungry demagogues.

    • @[email protected]English
      -6•13 hours 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.