green authoritarianism
Aug 13 2009 17:51
I'm trying to get in touch with someone who was involved in writing the 'open letter to the neighbourhoods' by anarchists at the last climate camp. Please PM me if you can get me in touch! It's basically about a collaboration for this year's camp at the end of the month.
Wondered what people here thought about 'green authoritarianism' anyway. Is it a meaningful term? I think that climate change could well be used by states to up their programmes of controlling and managing populations.
Aug 17 2009 14:42
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Also this is quite decent: http://www.lasthours.org.uk/articles/two-three-many-apocalypses-modern-ecologism-and-its-prospects/
Aug 25 2009 06:45
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qwertz wrote:
I'm trying to get in touch with someone who was involved in writing the 'open letter to the neighbourhoods' by anarchists at the last climate camp. Please PM me if you can get me in touch! It's basically about a collaboration for this year's camp at the end of the month.Wondered what people here thought about 'green authoritarianism' anyway. Is it a meaningful term? I think that climate change could well be used by states to up their programmes of controlling and managing populations.
I was involved in writing the open letter, I'll send you a pm.
cheers
a
Sep 1 2009 23:11
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ECO-STALINISM
Sep 9 2009 22:50
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qwertz wrote:
Wondered what people here thought about 'green authoritarianism' anyway. Is it a meaningful term? I think that climate change could well be used by states to up their programmes of controlling and managing populations.
Green authoritarianism as a phrase makes me think more of the Teddy Goldsmith kind of conservative environmentalist, the 'Blueprint for Survival' era.
I'm not sure about the term as a description of the likely outcomes as climate change issues become more urgent. I think it's more likely that it'll be the market that's directly used to enforce measures and ensure that any hardships fall more on the worse off (eg through having individual carbon allowances that you can trade or buy more if if you have the cash). Though I guess there'd need to be a heavy hand waiting to crush any unrest this might cause (or indeed from other causes depending on how bad the effects of global warming get in the long run), and you're right about managing populations - as more and more people are displaced by flooding, water shortages, crop failures, resource wars etc there'll be an even more determined effort to keep migrants out
Can't help with you frst point, but AF published an article about authoritianism and green issues here:
http://www.afed.org.uk/org/issue69/green_capitalism_environmental_surveillance.html