Ecofascism - A New Threat

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*Content Warning: Some of the images in this article may be distressing or triggering. Please take care with this material. * *Note: This is intended to be a primer of sorts on ecofascism, and will cover a lot of material in a more general sense. While the title is "A New Threat," the ideologies and philosophies themselves are not new, but rather renewed in a way that we, as a society, have not previously seen. The writer of this primer would like to thank the folks with the Institute for Social Ecology (@InstSocEcology) for their assistance with the article. Additional resources to... more »

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Ur-Fascism can come back under the most innocent of disguises. Our duty is to uncover it and to point our finger at any of its new instances—every day, in every part of the world. Umberto Eco, “Ur-Fascism”

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Ur-Fascism - PEGC
by U Eco - ‎1995 - ‎The New York Review of Books. June 22, 1995. UR-FASCISM. By Umberto Eco http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1856. In 1942, at the age of ten, I received the ...
Ecofascism - The Anarchist Library
This bulletin is an examination of the term and concept of “ecofascism.” It is a strange term/ concept to really have any conceptual validity. While there have been ...

The rise of real eco-fascism - ScienceDirect
by G Lawton - ‎2019 Aug 17, 2019 - The rise of real eco-fascism White nationalists are embracing environmentalism. We must tackle this threat before it spirals out of control, writes ...
The Menace of Eco-Fascism | by Matthew Phelan | NYR Daily ...
Oct 22, 2018 - We tend to assume that America's environmental movement has clear analogues in other countries and cultures, but it might really be closer to ..

(PDF) Right-wing Ecology in Germany: Assessing the ...

Jul 18, 2018 - PDF | On Jul 18, 2018, Peter Staudenmaier and others published ... Epilogue to Janet Biehl and Peter Staudenmaier, Ecofascism Revisited.

Ecofascism: Lessons from the German Experience ...
Ecofascism: Lessons from the German Experience. Janet Biehl. I-essonsfrotn the ... Title ,,Ecology"and the Modernization of Fascism HC79.E5B5 199s 

#ecofascism hashtag on Twitter 

What is #FarRight #ecologism? Based on the article “Beyond eco-fascism? Far Right Ecologism (FRE) as a framework for future inquiries”, #CARR Doctoral ...

Ecofascism: Deep Ecology and Right-Wing Co-optation
Ecofascism: Deep Ecology and Right-Wing Co-optation. ... E-mail Print PDF ... poisoned by wild mud-slinging and sensationalist accusations of eco-fascism.

The Founding Father of Eco-Fascism – AIER
Mar 17, 2019 - The eco-fascist screed from the New Zealand murder comes across as crude and low-level, the wild ramblers of a trash-talking 20-something 

A Reading of the conception of man in Hans Jonas ... - Papyrus

by D Bazin - ‎2004 -

Hans Jonas is considered one of the principal leaders of the ecological ..... eco-fascism, Jonas is tempted to propose an imposition, through politics, upon the ...

Environmental Ethics and Linkola's Ecofascism - UoA Scholar
by ED Protopapadakis -Abstract. Ecofascism as a tradition in Environmental Ethics seems to burgeoning with potential. The roots of Ecofascism can be traced back to the. German ...
Evangelos D. Protopapadakis Environmental Ethics and Linkola’s Ecofascism: An Ethics Beyond Humanism Abstract Ecofascism as a tradition in Environmental Ethics seems to burgeoning with potential. The roots of Ecofascism can be traced back to the German Romantic School, to the Wagnerian narration of the Nibelungen saga, to the works of Fichte and Herder and, finally, to the so-called völkisch movement. Those who take pride in describing themselves as ecofascists grosso modo tend to prioritize the moral value of the ecosphere, while, at the same time, they almost entirely devalue species and individuals. Additionally, these ecofascists are eager to reject democracy, the idea of progress in its entirety, as well as industrialization and urbanization. They also seem to be hostile towards individual autonomy and free will. In this short essay I will present and discuss Kaarlo Pentti Linkola’s approach to environmental ethics, one that could be well described as the epitome of Ecofascism. I will argue that his arguments are neither sound nor documented, and I will conclude that Linkola’s overall approach is, in my view, contrary to the purpose as well as to the very essence of morality. Keywords ecofascism, anthropocentricism, ecocentricism, environmental crisis, depopulation, ethical holism, environmental ethics

Eco-politics of localism - Interface Journal
by M Park - ‎that many ideas of eco-fascism can be found in conservative ecology groups such as ...... 

The environment - LSE Research Online

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I would define eco-fascism as a position that holds that some people have the right to ... immigrants should stay outside is, to repeat, not eco-fascism, but it will.

Philosophy and the Environment - UVic
Michael E. Zimmerman, “Ecofascism: An Enduring Temptation”. Available on-line ... http://www.colorado.edu/ArtsSciences/CHA/profiles/zimmpdf/ecofascism.pdf 

El Paso Terrorism Suspect's Alleged Manifesto Highlights Eco ...
Aug 4, 2019 - El Paso Terrorism Suspect's Alleged Manifesto Highlights Eco-Fascism's Revival. The racist rant inveighs against environmental destruction ...

FAR RIGHT ECOLOGISM - White Horse Press

Christchurch and El Paso revealed that the ideas of 'ecofascism' remain conspicuous in ...... 011_graz_parteiprogramm_englisch_web.pdf Accessed 08/04/2019.

The New Zealand shooter's manifesto shows how white ... - Vox

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Mar 18, 2019 - ... as European by blood because Australia is “simply an off-shoot of the European people” right alongside his discussions of eco-fascism.

Eco-Deconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Philosophy ...

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Series: Groundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology ... Read Online · Download PDF; Save; Cite this Item .... With fascism on the rise around the globe and the threat of an accelerated nuclear arms race at hand tied to a ...

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ERS 275 - University of Waterloo

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eco-fascism and totalitarianism, and eco-terrorism. .... -and-immigration-services/files/uploads/files/volume_1_issue_3_winter_2018.pdf and the Guidelines for.

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Download the conference programme. - Political Ecologies of ...

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rut eLLiot bLomqvist: a sojourn into tHe messy WorLd of ecofascism: or, HoW eco is ... kai bosWortH: reading green nationaLism and / as eco-fascism in and ...

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The Historical Roots Of Green Fascism - Larouchepub

by H Zepp-LaRouche -

Apr 13, 2007 - of fascism, even if, up to that point in time, the most horrible. German weekly Neue ... of the roots of eco-fascism. We publish here the first of two.

Sign the Petition to Stop Global Eco-Fascism

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Eco-Fascism. The following resolution was drafted May 4, 2011 by Helga Zepp-. LaRouche, chairwoman of the German Civil Rights Movement. Solidarity (BüSo) ...

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liberalism and cronyism - Mercatus Center

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rules not only govern the operation of political and eco- ... torical examples, such as fascism in Germany between the world wars and ...... -Testimony.pdf. 7. Ibid.

Eco-Fascists by Elizabeth Nickson | Frontier Centre For Public ...

Apr 25, 2013 - Her latest book is Eco-Fascists: How Radical Conservationists are Destroying our Natural ... View entire Book Review as PDF (16 pages) ..

The Land Ethic and the Significance of the Fascist Objection ...

Aug 8, 2014 - Labels like 'ecological fascism' and 'environmental fascism' are frequently used when stating the objection, but I will not use these emotionally ...

THE LAND ETHIC: key philosophical and scientific challenges

by JB Callicott 

peoples (Callicott and Overholt 1993). The holism of the land ethic and the problem of ecofascism. Its holism is the land ethic's principal strength, but also its ...

Environmentalism, NeoPaganism and EcoFascism: Here We ...

But Bramwell is not anti-environmentalist enough for some, as the “ecofascism” website demonstrates. William Kay the principle writer at this site also finds a ...

Rebranding fascism: national anarchists ... - Libcom.org

an international export of a new version of fascism that represent a ...... German Nazis and ecology, see Janet Biehl and Peter Staudenmaier, Ecofascism:.

IN ALBERTA WE NOW HAVE A FASCIST REGIME UNDER KENNEY AND UCP

THAT HAS BUILT A WAR ROOM AGAINST THE LEFT AND GREEN MOVEMENT IN CANADA BASED ON THE CONSPIRACY THEORIES OF VIVIAN KRAUSE

https://plawiuk.blogspot.com/search?q=KRAUSE

THEY HAVE LAUNCHED A PRIVATE FOUNDATION, NO FOIP ALLOWED, USING TAXPAYER FUNDING TO PROMOTE THE POLITICS OF THE PETROLEUM CLUB 

OF CALGARY  UPDATED Alberta's oil and gas 'war room' changing ...

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(PDF) The Threat of Ecofascism | Michael Zimmerman ...

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The Threat of Ecofascism Zimmerman, Michael E Social Theory and Practice; Summer 1995; 21, 2; ProQuest pg. 207. READ PAPER. Download pdf. ×Close ...

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Ecofascism: An Enduring Temptation Michael E. Zimmerman ...

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evaluation may be accurate, I argue that the threat of ecofascism cannot be ... sound practices, whereas unsound environmental practices undermine social and ... act according to foolish universalist principles, including the "theory of human.

From Deep Ecology to Integral Ecology: A ... - The Trumpeter

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by ME Zimmerman - ‎2014 - ‎Cited by 3 - ‎Related articles

15 Michael E. Zimmerman, “Feminism, Deep Ecology, and Environmental ... 195-224; Zimmerman, “The Threat of Ecofascism,” Social Theory and Practice, 21.

Publication dates of essays (month/year) can be found under "Essays".

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Michael Zimmerman is author of Environmental Philosophy, Heidegger's Confrontation with Modernity, and Contesting Earth's Future. He is a member of the Integral Institute's Ecology group, Professor of Philosophy at Tulane University, Clinical Professor of Psychology at the Tulane Medical School, Director of the Environmental Studies Program and Co-Director of the Asian Studies Program, and can be contacted at michaelz@tulane.edu

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ON RECONCILING PROGRESSIVISM AND ENVIRONMENTALISM

MICHAEL E. ZIMMERMAN

Ever since heady speculation about the practical power of early modern science led European savants to renovate the ideal of historical progress, that ideal has faced resistance from groups who have felt threatened by such progress, and has undergone crises stemming from unexpectedly untoward consequences of attempts to make political and economic progress. Especially since the 1960s, many people have asked whether the modern ideal of progress retains validity when confronted with ecological problems that may undermine the crucial progressive goal of overcoming scarcity.[1] The environmental crisis has generated questions such as following questions: Is an arguably finite planetary ecosystem compatible with the capitalist and socialist goal _of using instrumental rationality to produce an infinitely expanding quantity of material goods? Will "ecological scarcity" finally block humankind's efforts to overcome material scarcity? Must freedom from want be purchased at the expense of ecological stability? Can democratic societies long survive if rapidly growing Third World populations bring about vast ecological changes in pursuing the same level of material prosperity already achieved in First World countries? Will ecological problems become the central national security issue of the 21st century?[2] Such questions form the background for this essay, which examines whether progressivism and radical environmentalism can be reconciled in terms of an evolutionary teleology that is consistent both with nondual spirituality and with contemporary science.

My book, Contesting Earth's Future, was motivated by a similar concern about the sometimes anti-modernist and anti-and anti-progressive attitudes of environmentalism. Having once attempted to read Martin Heidegger's philosophy as consistent with deep ecology, I was forced to rethink that position after 1987, when evidence surfaced demonstrating that Heidegger's infamous relation with National Socialism was deeper and longer lasting than many commentators had supposed.[3] If Heidegger's thought was at least in some ways compatible with German National Socialism, so I asked myself, to what extent is deep ecology compatible (perhaps unwittingly) with eco-fascism? In a subsequent essay, I again attempted to warn radical environmentalists of the potential dangers of ecofascism, while also promoting a progressive reading of environmentalism.[4] The present essay encourages radical environmentalists in particular to tone down anti-modernist rhetoric and to embrace the constructive dimensions of modernity, even while continuing to criticize its weaknesses, including heedless environmental destruction.

Human cultures have always generated ecological perturbations, including some so great that they may have eradicated the mega fauna of North America and others that may have destroyed ancient Near Eastern civilizations. Ecological changes induced by modernity, however, dwarf anything in previous history. Modernity may be defined roughly as the recent epoch in which humanity has attempted to gain intellectual, political, and religious freedom, as well as to liberate itself from the crushing burden of material scarcity. Modernity has always had its dissenters, especially those who condemn its instrumental rationality, which objectifies human life and turns nature into a stockpile of resources. But many more people have accepted modernity's goals, even though not always with great enthusiasm. As Robert Pippin writes, precisely by depriving nature and human life of mystery and transcendent purpose, and by reducing to the status of merely private beliefs the traditional worldviews that once formed the basis for community, modernity has forced many people to conclude that "the narrow confines of strategic and instrumental rationality" are "the best concrete, realizable hope we have got for [social] coordination."[5] Even though instrumental rationality marginalizes the practical realm, undermines civic virtue, atomizes human community, destroys traditional social formations, and causes vast ecological damage, then, such rationality seems to be the only attitude consistent with modernity's widely accepted view that "most of if not all human misery was scarcity (a new and quite controversial claim) and that scarcity was a solvable technical problem."[6]

Contemporary critics of instrumental rationality include deconstructive postmodernists and radical environmentalists, who represent the somewhat conflicting tendencies of the counterculturalism of the 1960s. Though sharing some concerns with such counterculturalists, Pippin insists that we cannot adequately understand the implications posed by the limitations of instrumental rationality (including ecological and social problems), unless we develop an adequate answer to the following question: Why did the modern idea that misery arises from eliminable scarcity triumph over the premodern idea that misery has additional causes that are more difficult to correct? Pippin is right, I believe, in asserting that modernity's project of overcoming scarcity through the mastery of nature cannot be adequately understood simply as a technically more proficient way of accomplishing what premodern people had already been doing.

Despite retaining important links with the past, European modernity involves a novel conceptual and experiential horizon in which humanity gradually came to define itself and its relation to nature differently than before. To exploit the extraordinary productive potential of insights produced by natural science, modern "man" (here and elsewhere, I use this masculine term to emphasize the patriarchal dimension of modernity) develops a new mode of subjectivity, egoic rationality, and a related ideology, anthropocentric humanism, which portray man as the source of value, the standard for truth, and the master of nature. Modern individual man asserts his freedom, both from illegitimate political authority and religious dogmatism. He defines truth not as revelation, but rather as the product of rational inquiry, including scientific method. He assumes that modern science, combined with the energies of free men, will make possible the conquest of nature, thereby ending material scarcity. Within a few centuries, the whole planet had been transformed by the institutions, ideology, and subjectivity that arose within the audacious modern horizon.

Contemporary people operating from within this seemingly all-encompassing horizon presuppose that scarcity is humankind's major ill, and that scarcity can be vanquished by rational deliberation and advanced technology. Socialists and market liberals alike usually conclude that continued scarcity and its attendant suffering result from misguided political economies. Socialists argue, for example, that if only the means of production were collectively owned, humankind would achieve the mastery of nature needed for material abundance. Critics of modernity, including radical environmentalists, do not deny that scarcity is an important ill, but maintain that there are important problems other than scarcity, and that a number of those problems arise from reckless efforts to overcome it. Indeed, they argue not only that attempts to generate infinite abundance will fail, because they will undermine the ecosystems on which human life depends, but that superfluous abundance in consumerist societies blocks fulfillment of other human needs. Suspecting that the tragic myth of Daedelus, not the defiant myth of Prometheus so favored by Marx, should be used to interpret modernity's effort to control nature, most radical environmentalists agree that modernity's continued reliance on technological fixes will not work in the long run, since purported solutions to yesterday's problems (e.g., using nuclear fuel to overcome a scarcity of electricity) create even greater problems (e.g., safely disposing of a surplus of nuclear waste). In other words, modern society cannot dig itself out of its ecologically-poisoned hole by using the same conceptual and practical tools employed to dig that hole in the first place. Instead, in order to behave in ecologically viable ways, humankind must enter into a post-anthropocentric conceptual and attitudinal horizon.

Although often only grudgingly, many progressives have gradually concluded that industrial economies must reform their practices in order to minimize those environmental problems that threaten human well being. Many of those same progressives, however, also suspect that radical environmentalists are socially regressive at best and ecofascist at worst, because they refuse to concede that overcoming scarcity justifies virtually any treatment of non-human beings. Demanding that humans conform to an allegedly more "natural" way of doing things, and proclaiming the need for a mystical reunion with nature, radical environmentalists ostensibly promote an anti-humanism that--in a way similar to deconstructive postmodernism--is inconsistent with progressive views of history.

In this essay, I begin by focusing on an incident of industrial pollution in Bogalusa, Louisiana, in order to bring out aspects of the conflict between radical environmentalists and progressives. Then, I examine more closely the contention of many modernists, that radical environmentalism has affinities with nature-worshipping, reactionary movements earlier in this century. Next, I briefly show that deep ecology and ecofeminism can be read as having a "progressive" dimension, despite their criticisms of modernity's efforts to dominate nature. Finally, I analyze Ken Wilber's attempt to reconcile the best features of radical environmentalism, which accuses modernism of a mortality-denying arrogance stemming from a fear of nature and the body, with the best features of modern progressivism, which accuses radical ecology of social and psychological regressiveness, anti-humanism, and blindness to the fact that human well being inevitably requires the control of nature. Acknowledging the validity of modernity's quest for freedom from religious dogmatism, political oppression, and material want, Wilber also agrees with those radical environmentalists who argue that a renewed spirituality is necessary to transform society in the ways needed to avoid ecological catastrophe. For Wilber, however, such spirituality will result not from an ostensibly regressive union with Mother Nature, but instead from a progressive development of consciousness and the social institutions needed to support such development. Convinced that a new narrative is needed to inspire and to guide humankind in this difficult age, Wilber develops an evolutionary story that synthesizes contemporary science, developmental psychology, and nondual spirituality. As we shall see, however, environmentalists and modernists alike are suspicious of Wilber's narrative.