Why This Far Right Trend Should Scare You
Hello! Hope you’re having a good Friday. This month’s video dives into the growing tendrils of fossil fascism and ecofascism creeping into right-wing politics. It’s a heavy topic, but a necessary one to cover. I’ve also, as always, added three quotes and three links that I found illuminating during my research.
Three Quotes:
“Ecobordering seeks to obscure the primary driving causes of the ecological crisis in the entrenched production and consumption practices of Global North economies, whilst simultaneously shifting blame on to migration from the Global South where ecological degradation has been most profound. In an era of increasing climate migration, ecobordering thereby portrays effects as causes and further normalises racist border practices and colonial amnesia within Europe.”
— Joe Turner & Dan Bailey
“if primitive fossil capital was the historical engine of the denial machine, the far right had become the exhaust pipe.”
— Andreas Malm & The Zetkin Collective
“We know that this is having a change, by not building that wall, by stopping the ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy, it has had a change in our environment in Arizona,”
— Arizona’s Attorney General, Mark Brnovich
Three Links:
The Far-Right View on Climate Politics (The Atlantic)
‘Ecobordering’: casting immigration control as environmental protection (Joe Turner & Dan Bailey)
How climate change is fueling the rise of Spain’s far right (Politico)
Hope you have a wonderful weekend,
Charlie