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by hef19898 2533 days ago
Authoritarian rule sure looks attractive in situations like that. On the surface. Maybe I'm too much liberal and democrat (in the non-US political sense, but it doesn't seem that any of authoritarian rulers we have is doing anything about it.

Without a democratic consense and legislation we won't manage to fight climate change because people won't support it and the industrialized world that is not authoritarian ruled won't buy into a climate dictatorship.

That being said, nothing good comes from dictatorship and authoritarian systems, never. If we atart to unilaterally dicide what is good and bad there is no way to tell when and where to stop. Or when we ourselves end up on the "wrong" side.