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German Literature Nobel Prize Guntther Grass warns of an “eco-dictatorship”
Grass also blasted the Merkel administration for her close relation with the nuclear power lobby German Nobel Prize winner Gunther Grass fears that the nuclear disaster in Japan and other environmental issues could lead to an “eco-dictatorship”, according to an interview published in the “Haumburger Abenbdblatt”.
“What happened at the Fukushima nuclear plant is not the only problem: we have also to deal with the exhaustion of resources, the end of growth, globalization, water scarcity…” said Grass, adding they are all “as important”.
“My worst fear is that we end up setting up an eco-dictatorship. We would then have to live with a state of emergency regulations” said the 83 year old author of The Tin Drum.
However Grass also launched a furious criticism against the pro-nuclear policy followed in Germany by the ruling coalition of Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and her junior partner in government, the Liberal Party (FDP).
“What we have today was negotiated by Mrs. Merkel, the CDU and the FDP with the nuclear lobby. And against the protests of citizens” he underlined.
On more literary issues, Grass said he was empty of themes following on his most recent book, Wörter. Eine Liebeserklärung (Remarks by Grimm: a declaration of love).
“So, now I’m dedicated to drawing” he said. ”I do sketches of a novel I published 50 years ago: ‘Dog Years’”, said the greatest living German writer.
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Read all commentsI'm not sure if an temporary eco-dictatorship would be a bad thing in the long term. Obviously I'd prefer if eco-friendly policies were adopted using democratic means but it seems that that is against human nature. Maybe what we need would be for an eco-dictatorship to make society more sustainable and then allow democracy to rise up again.
Apr 12th, 2011 - 05:23 pm 0If the alternative pole to Eco-Dictatorship (a) is Eco-Anarchy (b), then I favour some sort of attempt to bring rational action to the way the world conducts its affairs (a).
Apr 12th, 2011 - 10:50 pm 0Because there is no doubt that the global mass of humanity will reach its natural carrying capacity in the fullness of time (say, 2070), and the world WILL fragment into (a) and (b).
Type (a) countries will have one type of winners and losers in an autocracy loosley masquerading as a democracy;
type (b) countries will have mostly losers, the winners will have the guns - and the big fight will be over who owns the water.
Who would have thought that the most prescient media portrayal of future-world would be from a little known comic featuring Tank Girl!
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“eco-dictatorship”= green fascists.
Apr 13th, 2011 - 04:07 am 0One of its leader is Al Gore.
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