Eco-fascism

Neither democracy nor the market economy will have the credibility to survive an environmental breakdown. The most likely short-term reaction will be eco-fascism -- an attempt by well-off minorities to protect their privileged access to environmental resources. This will not work, as there is no way of completely excluding the poor from access to the global environment. An "eco-Stalinist" revolution is likely to follow introducing a dictatorship with strict rationing of resources.