The anarchies leading humanity towards destruction are, of course, elite anarchies - somehow these escape attention in the limited MSM view of opposition to climate oppression.
Following the tidal wave of free money released by the global economic crisis in 2008, governance systems thoughout the 'liberal western democracies' have been subordinated to the endless ego-anarchy of the wealthy elite, and our elected representatives have been happy to drown the urgencies of the masses.
The article by Dolsak and Prakash isn't really against anarchies, then - it just wants what it sees as the desperate anarchies of environmental activists to be controlled, whilst the unsupervised and unregulated anarchies of the elites, released by cyber-financing, to accelerate the destruction of the the human bio-vehicle.
Time and again, geographical themes are being subordinated to these powerful elite egotisms - smart cities "reinforce digital divides, inequality, and power asymmetries by catering to political elites, prioritizing vested interests, and deepening existing socioeconomic divisions" (Smart City Visions and Human Rights: Do They Go Together? Tina Kempin Reuter, 2020,
https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/files/cchr/files/CCDP_006.pdf), but curiously this endless concentration of power is very rarely mentioned in urban theory writings.
Urban water supplies are driven by elite concerns, as the south-western USA is finding out - "due to stark socioeconomic inequalities, urban elites are able to overconsume water while excluding less-privileged populations from basic access" (Urban water crises driven by elites’ unsustainable consumption, Elisa Savelli, Maurizio Mazzoleni, Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Hannah Cloke & Maria Rusca
Nature Sustainability, 2023).
Drinking in cities is driven by profit-motivated elite anarchies, even the air that you breathe - "central to the effort to regulate automobile emissions in California are business elites whose economic interests lie in rising property values and an expanding local consumer base" (Urban Growth and the Politics of Air Pollution: The Establishment of California's Automobile Emission Standards
George A. Gonzalez, Polity, Winter, 2002)
In India, elite atmospheric polluters are making life unliveable - "Dirty air: how India became the most polluted country on earth" (
https://ig.ft.com/india-pollution/). Anarchistic elite abuse of the atmosphere is so great that an horrific new industry is beginning - the Pay-to-Breathe industry ("The Alarming Rise of India’s Pay-to-Breathe Industry", Akanksha Singh, BUSINESS, MAR 8, 2023). It isn't that elites don't understand this, any more than the politicians they own - it's that short-term profit and short=term voting drives them on, and they've purchased their way over and above the power of the legal system... the ability to pollute and waste at will without consequence gives them a filth-based freedom.
Ironically, in his letter MLK mentions anarchy just once: "In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law, as would the rabid segregationist. That would lead to anarchy. One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."
Elite polluters evade and defy the law through a position of power and privilege; environmental activists constitute a last desperate attempt to draw attention to this anarchy 'to arouse the conscience of the community' over the injustices of an elite which is in danger of exterminating a large portion of humanity...
