German Literature Nobel Prize Guntther Grass warns of an “eco-dictatorship”

Tuesday, April 12th 2011 - 03:51 UTC

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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”. Read full article

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Rectifying Madness
I'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 - Link - Report abuse 0
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GeoffWard
If 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).

Because 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!
;-)
Apr 12th, 2011 - 10:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Fido Dido
“eco-dictatorship”= green fascists.

One of its leader is Al Gore.
Apr 13th, 2011 - 04:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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