Original scientific paper
Technical or Ecological Dictatorship
Momo Šarenac
; Faculty of Technology, Maribor
Abstract
Ecological contradictions are components of social, developmental structural opposites. The entire civilizational progress has been bought off precisely for the price of changing exploiting and committing violence over the integrity of natural ecological systems.
The ecological crisis is manifested in Paleolithic as the manner of feeding crisis, in Neolithic through urbanization as the creation of the nucleus of future ecological threats. The industrial revolution has not resolved the main contradictions between nature, capital and the method of exploiting nature; it has only deepened them. It seems that mankind has arrived at the point where it’s main objective must be the struggle for survival For solving the ecological crisis and preventing ecological catastrophe, the priority issue is the determination of new political coordinates. Fundamentally there are two possible types, levels of behaviour: the Democratic-formed systems and the Authoritarianoctroyed systems.
In order to avoid technical and ecological dictatorship it is necessary to change the attitude of the people toward global dangers, especially ecological dangers. More democracy is what the ecological transformation of our society depends upon and this is impossible to carry through without the active participation of all in this task.
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Hrčak ID:
155067
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Publication date:
30.6.1991.
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