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I'd guess no western governments would fail. Personally I suspect when the west reaches its ideological reflexive response to climate change, it'll look like fa
by hkt 3y ago
I'd guess no western governments would fail. Personally I suspect when the west reaches its ideological reflexive response to climate change, it'll look like fascism. I also suspect we'd have preferred communism.
What's scary to me is the malign actions that are possible in the name of climate change. Imagine you're living in Pakistan and your home has been washed away. Is it so hard to believe someone somewhere will choose to pursue revenge?
Armed with the simple fact that Americans have higher per capita carbon emissions than any other people - double as much, if memory serves - then someone sufficiently angry may well be able to justify indiscriminate killing of Americans to themselves.
Apologies for the morbidity here, but what I'm saying here is that by not adopting explicit policies of "just transition" we're setting up the conditions for climate fascism in the west and climate terrorism too.
- Ekaros 3y agoIndividual governments as in the ruling coalitions are likely to fall. Probably in response to extreme measures they would put in place to combat climate change and massive degradation of quality of life that would follow. I believe people will choose furthering climate change over massively lowering their standards of living. And they would be violent in these goals. So nations might stay, but they will just throw away most of actions taken.
- hkt 3y agoIt isn't an either/or for most countries. I suspect America and Russia will have to change enormously, the rest of the west just needs decent public transport, cogeneration of heat, insulation, and some changes to agriculture. Nobody is going to have an awful life if we deal with climate change in a just way, even if we limit ourselves to today's technology.