> The worst case scenario involves fascism, which would > probably be called > something else while being very different from the fascism of > the 1930s & > 1940s. (I can imagine that a big environmental crisis would > encourage the > worst of authoritarianisms.) > ============= > Not that we're at worse case scenario by any means but we > *do* have a *very big* environmental > crisis
but except for the world's poor, the crisis hasn't really hit home yet. > and the authoritarianism that's seriously impeding our > efforts to adapt to the planetary > ecologies is called actually existing capitalism with it's > neo-mandarins in denial of everything > thoughtful ecologists and other scientists are telling us. the current kind of authoritarianism is actually making matters worse. I was talking about the kind that would be a reaction when the environmental crisis actually hits capitalists below the belt, hurting profitability. Jim
