Re: Carbon Brief: 'How colonial rule radically shifts historical responsibility for climate change' Archived Message
Posted by johnlilburne on December 8, 2023, 12:36 am, in reply to "Re: Carbon Brief: 'How colonial rule radically shifts historical responsibility for climate change'"
Perhaps John is right and a China-led order will lead to saner, more mutually beneficial outcomes. I never made such a claim. Nor would I. I referenced a book - which I have not read - which I thought might give an alternative Chinese perspective on the world to the western one, which has proved to be disastrous. We obviously need a different way of looking at the world and a better way of acting in it. I do not know enough about Chinese culture and society to claim that it would provide a saner alternative. If we have entered an era of synergising global collapses (as Bendell claims) we are going to need to be imaginative in our responses. We will need all the psychological and cultural resources that we can muster. These will vary from place to place. I suspect that other societies might be more resilient than those in the over-pampered west. The elites will favour authoritarian technodystopian responses in order to try to maintain their control. A fearful population would likely be easily manipulated into accepting such responses especially if convenient scapegoats can be found. Different groups can be pitted against one another. We will need to become much more aware of how we are being manipulated if we are to resist creeping authoritarianism and maintain some semblance of freedom and humanity as we negotiate our way through an era of collapse.
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