The environmental group gave up its singular focus on climate change for a broader agenda. The ensuing internal strife left it weakened as it takes on the Trump administration.

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      “Environment for me, but not for thee.”

      In a sense, it’s an older mentality related to taking over territory. The “eco” is tied to “cleansing” the territory for the added reason of having some park or sustainable looking agriculture or animal farming [for the master race]. A lot of the focus is on population and how great it would be if there were only a few (but “superior”) humans around. Not them, of course, it’s the others who “need to go”. This links effortlessly to the Nazis’ Lebensraum idea.

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      Ecofascism. If they said the quiet part out loud it would sound like “Climate change is going to be disastrous so we need to protect [in-group] against its consequences, regardless of the cost to others”.

      An obvious example is closing borders to climate refugees; but it can also be slowing down the improvement of living standards among the poor to curb global emissions; financially or culturally discouraging childbirth among the outgroup; revoking or denying access to human rights because providing them would be too polluting; deafening silence around luxuries of the in-group like the meat industry, cars, and airplanes compared to loud complaints about basic necessities for the out-group like electricity, construction, and goods transport; etc.

      Much of the western world’s climate change policy is informed by ecofascism, because fascism is the natural behavior of liberals that don’t want to give up privileges, and the west doesn’t want to admit that they only have half the population of India and only deserve to pollute proportionally.