Quite simply! That would of course be too short-sighted!
Let’s briefly look at two aspects.
For a society, authoritarian politics means that political or economic solutions are implemented centrally. In the past and present, this means that large-scale projects are usually implemented over the heads of the inhabitants of affected regions. These can be dams, mining, tourism projects, company relocations and the like. Governments and businesses usually work hand in hand here. For the local people, this means that nature and their livelihoods are destroyed. Large corporations or the state itself make a profit from this.
It is not uncommon for regions to be selected for this purpose in order to suppress rebellious inhabitants and gain political control over areas by destroying the livelihoods of local people.
This is usually sold as infrastructure or development investments, allegedly created jobs or supposedly necessary energy projects.
And this brings us to the second aspect of authoritarian politics. If people do not share these perspectives, do not benefit from these projects in any case, but instead point out the destruction of the environment and the consequences for the climate and want to save the affected regions, they are criminalized, subjected to massive repression and, in some regions of the world, simply murdered.
Exploitation of resources and the destruction of nature is also taking place on a massive scale in Germany, for example through mining and its contaminated sites and the establishment of huge unnecessary corporations such as Tesla in Grünheide.
That’s why we’re also present with Stop Authoritarianism Campaign at the climate strike on 31 May in Dresden!
Against authoritarian politics!
For a decentralisation of the energy supply!
Solidarity with the climate activists affected by repression!
Meeting point 2pm at Goldener Reiter.
We wanna walk than together to Schlossplatz, where the demo starts.