I’m asking you what you think would be different if China was the largest global superpower?
If this is some great fear we’re all supposed to have to the point that we’ll forestall making progress on decarbonizing then it should be easy to clearly articulate what we’re afraid of happening.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
I’ve tried to answer, but it’s tough because projecting geopolitics forward is always speculative. Why don’t you go now? Do you think democracy would be safe in that scenario? Is that important, in your opinion?
regul@lemm.ee 6 months ago
The democracy I live under now keeps ignoring or delaying action on climate change in favor of things that are less important than the comfortable survival of our species. If it’s trying to convince me it’s worth saving it’s doing a bad job.
My ideological concerns are secondary to my ecological concerns.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
In the long term, autocracy is a far greater threat to the comfort of our species. Pretty much any and all history before 250 years ago is depressing as hell, and if democracy dies that’s where we’re headed, but with far more powerful technology to abuse. Climate change will suck, but we’ll adapt, even if we have to abandon the tropics entirely.
regul@lemm.ee 6 months ago
We won’t be abandoning the tropics. The people who live there will be. And, based on current prevailing attitudes of temperate democracies, those fleeing the uninhabitable zones will be told to simply pound sand. It will be genocide by omission.