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The current politicians don't have the backbone to admit that many political crisis are directly or indirectly linked to climate change. If it's a natural catastrophe, they can act compassionate and give empty promises since "it's nature and thus out of their hands," (or so they and many of their voters believe at least) but political crisis like wars in Africa happen in the political sphere and thus have political responsibility - something Western politicians don't want to owe up to since they're worried about the opinions of their puppeteers and their next election.
We see the same behavior with Western politicians not apologizing for colonialism and theft of African cultural assets, for example. The politicians don't want to owe up to it, because it'd mean that they'd have to give back tens of thousand stolen goods and pay reparations. That's nothing they'd be able to tell their people since they'd need to fear that they won't get re-elected over this, seeing how many people in the West have an intrinsic colonial mindset.
Many tend to forget it, but politicians and parties are just a mirror of a country's society.
Nationalistic thinking and a blissful ignorance of climate change is prevalent in many industrialized countries, not only among the politicians, but among the populations voting those clowns into power.
Climate change will destroy those structures. I said it before and I will say it again. There will be a small time window when the current system will completely collapse because climate change will make it impossible for Western societies to ignore all the wrong they do.
The only question will be whether those on the left will have enough power to use that small time window to push a new democratic, nature-friendly, de-growth-based system into power, or if history will repeat itself, and people will choose the radicalization, leading to fascists and other right-wing movements taking power.
I would hope for former, but cold-hearted logic tells me that humanity will soon go through a series of unprecedented wars over resources.
IPCC says that we're currently on a course to reach +2-3°C by the end of this century, and even if we take this very conservative estimate at face value, such a temperature increase will mean the collapse of global economy and the loss of a lot of arable and inhabitable land.
As such I'd agree with "The reaction will tend to not be very 'green'. (Apart from the sense that military uniforms tend to be green.)"
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2023-08-08 11:33:05
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