“In the 21st century, all politics will be climate politics in some way,” write Sam Moore and Alex Roberts, 12 What rulesa podcast researching the far right, and author of a previous book post internet far right.
This article was first published in Renaissance and Ecologists Magazine, come out now.
Such a statement would be unequivocally welcomed in years when climate collapse lingers in the wild, struggling to gain any support on the political agenda.
Read an excerpt from the book: Eco-Fascism and Indian Nationalism.
But as our world warms, and as the climate system breaks down, it’s not just political centers that will be forced to engage in climate change. People may seek “more drastic solutions”.
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Denialism may be fading as science and the weather become increasingly worrisome, but denialism won’t be the far right’s last word on environmental issues. It is in times of crisis that fascism finds its footing.
Far-right ideology has long permeated natural politics. It appeared in Thomas Malthus’ racist warnings about the future of overpopulation in the early 19th century. In the colonial mentality of the degradation of the tropics and their peoples; dispossessing native lands to clear the way for America’s first national park.
The Nazis conflated nature and eugenics with their slogan “Blood and Soil,” a phrase recently re-used by white supremacists in America. Oswald Mosley’s British Fascist League envisioned healthy country and organic food as synonymous with racially pure people.
Moore and Roberts, Authors The Rise of Eco-Fascism: Climate Change and the Far Righttrace the lineage of these ideologies to the present.
How could the French National Rally, for example, headed by Marine Le Pen, which at the time of writing is closer to power than at any point in its history, claiming that “the best ally of ecology is the border”?
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Some people “are ecologists rooted in their homeland,” Le Pen infers, while nomads “don’t care about the environment.”
