(March 8, 2022 at 9:29 pm)Jehanne Wrote:(March 8, 2022 at 9:17 pm)JairCrawford Wrote: I am concerned, yes. I am greatly concerned about the climate and environment as well. I should emphasize that my concerns about the future of democracy are not so much because democracy is ‘the greatest thing ever’ or anything like that, but more so that I sense a significant threat of autocracy.
Democracy leads to consumerism to burning fossil fuels to climate change, perhaps catastrophic.
Autocratic societies have lower carbon footprints per capita.
P.S. I am not trying to derail your thread, and so, this will be my last post on your topic.
You’re not derailing the thread, imo. But it sounds to me like you’re talking specifically about capitalism. When I say I worry about democracy, I’m not necessarily thinking specifically about capitalism. Greed is indeed very much a part of the problem, after all.
