Democracy|Anna Kontula believes that parliamentarism has no future in the climate crisis.
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China researchers Hermann Aubié from the University of Turku and Sari Arho-Havré from the Royal United Services Institute think tank say that totalitarianism is not better than democracy in solving the climate crisis.
Anna Kontula (left) criticizes parliamentarism for its inability to solve the climate crisis.
Kontula believes that totalitarian forms of power use like China may become more common in the future.
There is no evidence that China’s approach is effective in terms of social or environmental policy, the researchers say.
Can you In the future, Finland may become China’s “hinterland”, where the great power seeks natural resources, and the Finns have no power over their own affairs?
Congressman Anna Kontula (left) mentioned In an interview with HS such a possibility in the future if global actors take more and more power. Kontula does not believe in the possibilities of parliamentarism to continue as a decision-making system, as it is unable to manage the challenges caused by the eco-disaster and climate change.
China researcher Hermann Aubié agrees with Kontula that the loss of European national parliaments is inevitable. According to the researcher, it would help to block China’s influence if the EU became a federal state.
A “new Nokia” will not be born in Finland without an industrial policy created by the joint European administration, which would help Finland develop its technology sector, says Aubié.
“China has an ambitious industrial strategy and a huge flow of capital to strategic industries,” Aubié compares.
China expert working at the Royal United Services Institute think tank Sari Arho-Havrén says studies show that the world has become more undemocratic for 17 years already.
“China wants to create a world order that makes the existence of authoritarian states safe,” says Arho-Havrén.
Investigator hopes that democracy will be maintained in Finland.
“In the end, democracy means that individual rights are protected against those in power. In an authoritarian system, laws protect those in power,” says Arho-Havrén.
In tackling the climate crisis, Chinese totalitarianism is no better than democratic parliamentarism, researchers say.
Dictatorial and thanks to its centralized form of government, China is able to implement reforms very quickly, says Aubié.
“[Kiinassa] local authorities receive promotions based on their performance. In Western democracies, politicians do not work on the basis of the evaluation mechanism of the central government, but they have to act according to what the people think,” says Aubié.
However, there is no evidence of the effectiveness of the Chinese approach in, for example, social or environmental policy, Aubié and Arho-Havrén estimate.
“China has not proven to be very good at planning and implementing policy measures that genuinely respond to the people’s problems,” says Aubié.
Although The Chinese communist regime can effectively reverse its policy, it must keep the people satisfied, says Arho-Havrén.
“We are able to make drastic decisions for one side or the other, but the background is always to ensure that the party remains in power,” describes Arho-Havrén.
The researcher brings up, for example, China’s extremely strict policy in curbing the coronavirus.
“When the people started to show that there is movement and about it [korona]politics can become a threat, it was overturned overnight,” says Arho-Havrén.
According to him, the administration also has to balance when taking climate measures, because the Chinese are used to continuous economic growth. The country’s industry uses highly polluting coal as one of its energy sources.
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