Peter Thiel probably? But I think it’s mostly referring to regular people. I see comments like it all the time.

Eco-fascism is a pipeline from environmentalism to fascism. Like with other fascist pipelines, people that deliberately build it don’t go mask off unless they’re stationed far enough along the pipeline that their audience is fine with it. It is intentionally difficult to tell the difference between someone thoughtlessly repeating ecofascist talking points and someone intentionally spreading those talking points to pull people towards more fascist ideologies.

Relatively far down the pipeline are people like Peter Thiel, who openly talk about human population control, or the executives at Nestlé, whose solution to water shortages is to corner the market. And before you complain that you don’t support them or that they aren’t very ecological - most people defending PewDiePie jokes wouldn’t support Hitler either, and Hitler isn’t very funny either.

Though if I had to peg someone as deliberately building at it while operating not very far down the pipeline, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson. I haven’t read The Ministry for the Future, but in the Mars trilogy corporations terraform Mars at breakneck speed without any lasting negative consequences, the Martians overthrow the corporations that are selfishly bringing millions of people from the global south, and as ecological disaster makes Earth far less habitable, the heroes’ answer is to limit migration far below Mars’ carrying capacity because “they would drown our world without saving theirs” (paraphrasing from memory). In the end, Mars is described as a bougie paradise while people on Earth are described as living in squalor and sleeping under their desks.

All this is couched among positive depictions of eco-sabotage, anti-corporate guerilla warfare, a flourishing gift economy, post-work society, citizens’ assemblies, community self-determination, anarchism, etc.

I don’t think there’s many “notable public figures” matching that description, but there’s certainly people who do. All the “nature is healing, we are the virus” posts around the lockdowns etc…

This isn’t the only machine we have made and we are entirely capable of replacing it if we organize to take power from those who have manipulated society across centuries in order to enforce their machines existence.

The ruling class, generally.

pretty sure accelerationism is a different thing. basically the idea that to get to a better world the one we currently live in needs to break. unfortunately they don’t seem to care that the manner of breaking is really quite important. capitalism collapsing because workers established networks to feed and house themselves, and capitalism collapsing because the oligarchs decided they’d rather be kings are very different situations

Im using words I believe reflect reality better.

Using machine instead of capitalism to emphasize structures of might, and using unwellness instead of problem to emphasize looking at our world as living rather than an engineering project.