A really good article with lotsa links to studies on #ClimateChange and the rise of authoritarianism and demagogues.
The first part about #Duterte is interesting, he literally got a foot in the door after typhoon #Yolanda.
The next paragraphs about 3 other leaders (Donald-T, Bolsonaro, Modi) are not related to disasters so you can skip them, I guess.
But after that, it gets really good. Psych studies show how climate knowledge raises in-group vs outgroup thinking โ and kindles racism as well as fandom for fraudulent fascists.
This psychological mechanism can also work in our favour: the larger a well-meaning, climate-informed ingroup gets, the bigger is its clout on societal norms and identification with just and traditional ethical values.
Then the outgroup is not the migrants or muslims. Then the outgroup is identified as for example, the market-liberals and other obnoxious sadists.
https://grist.org/politics/authoritarian-democracy-climate-change-global-warming-causation-research/