Vicious Accelerating Feedbacks Between Far Right Politics and Climate Catastrophe
There is no denying it. There are vicious amplifying feedbacks in play between the far-right political mobs and accelerating climate change, and they love it.
As the far-right gains more and more political power, they trash climate change policies, and anybody working to reduce climate change. Thus, climate catastrophe worsens, and humanity experiences more and more extreme weather events, with higher intensity and impacts, for longer durations. This causes large numbers of people to migrate as they lose their homes, cities, and livelihoods. These climate refugees have to go somewhere, and they try to immigrate to safer havens. This, in turn, leads to many countries being inundated with hopeful would be immigrants, and after a while leads to far-right populous political parties blaming them for all the problems, so there is a backlash within many countries, with hard right parties gaining power, and then immediately trashing all climate policies. The vicious cycle gets amplified, over and over again.
Let’s use wildfires in Canada as an example, since these fires are on peoples minds.
Climate change has caused Canada, a northern country to warm about 2 degrees C. This spring has been the warmest and driest in the 84 years of reanalysis records. No surprise then, that many wildfires have been triggered, mostly by lightning and human carelessness, or sparks, or cigarette butts, or hot mufflers.
The far-right never wastes an opportunity to lie and spread the most outlandish conspiracy theories. Without evidence, they blame arsonists for setting all these fires, and weather people for making up the heat waves and droughts, and immigrants for destroying the country. Their vicious echo chambers spread lies at the speed of light around the world, and there are more and more people believing their nonsense.
If this vicious cycle is not broken, we have zero chance to avoid a very dystopian world, much sooner than people think.
My call on the US election. Trump will win the election from his jail cell, then pardon himself and all the Jan 6 people, and then put Biden in jail.
Dystopia will rule.
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