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'''Ecofascism''' is a term which is used to describe individuals and groups which combine [[environmentalism]] with [[Fascism|fascist]] viewpoints and tactics. Originally, the term "ecofascist" was considered an academic term for a hypothetical type of government which would militantly enforce environmental measures over the needs and freedoms of its citizens.<ref name="Zimmerman">{{Cite book |last=Zimmerman |first=Michael E. |author-link=Michael E. Zimmerman |chapter=Ecofascism |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i4mvAwAAQBAJ&q=ecofascism |title=Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, Volume 1 |editor-last=Taylor |editor-first=Bron R. |editor-link=Bron Taylor |date=2008 |publisher=[[Continuum International Publishing Group|Continuum]] |location=London, UK |isbn=978-1-44-112278-0 |pages=531–532 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>
'''Ecofascism''' is a term which is used to describe individuals and groups which combine [[environmentalism]] with [[Fascism|fascist]] viewpoints and tactics. Originally, the term "ecofascist" was considered an academic term for a hypothetical type of government which would militantly enforce environmental measures over the needs and freedoms of its citizens.{{sfn|Zimmerman|2008|p=531}}


In non-academic circles, the term "ecofascist" was originally used as a slur against the emerging environmental movement from the 1970s onwards, with [[André Gorz]] speaking of eco-fascism as early as 1977 to characterize (feared) forms of totalitarianism based on an exclusively ecological orientation of politics.<ref>{{cite book |first=André |last=Gorz |author-link=André Gorz |title=Ökologie und Politik |language=de |trans-title=Ecology and Politics |location=Rowohlt |publisher=Reinbek |date=1977 |page=75}}</ref> However, since the 2010s, a number of individuals and groups have emerged that either self-identify as "ecofascist" or have been labelled so by academic or journalistic sources.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/10/22/the-menace-of-eco-fascism/ |title=The Menace of Eco-Fascism |first=Matthew |last=Phelan |date=22 October 2018 |magazine=[[New York Review of Books]] |access-date=9 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200221000952/https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/10/22/the-menace-of-eco-fascism/ |archive-date=21 February 2020}}</ref> These individuals and groups synthesise radical [[far-right]] politics with environmentalism<ref>{{cite book |first1=Thomas |last1=Jahn |first2=Peter |last2=Wehling |title=Ökologie von rechts. Nationalismus und Umweltschutz bei der Neuen Rechten und den Republikanern |language=de |trans-title=Ecology from the right. Nationalism and environmentalism among the New Right and Republicans |location=Campus, Frankfurt/Main, New York |date=1991}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Jutta |last=Ditfurth |author-link=Jutta Ditfurth |title=Feuer in die Herzen. Plädoyer für eine ökologische linke Opposition |language=de |trans-title=Fire in the heart. Plea for an ecological left opposition |location=Hamburg |date=1992 |pages=278, 324}}</ref> and will typically advocate that overpopulation is the primary threat to the environment and that the only solution is to completely halt immigration, or at their most extreme, actively commit genocide against minority groups and ethnicities.<ref name="Vice Base 2020"/><ref name="Teen Vogue 2020"/><ref>{{cite thesis |type=Master's |url=https://tampub.uta.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/92821/gradu00622.pdf |last=Oksa |first=Juha |title=Antihumanismista antroposentrismiin. Ympäristöfilosofia ja ihmisen maailmassa oleminen. |language=fi |trans-title=From antihumanism to anthropocentrism. Environmental philosophy and human being in the world |date=August 2005 |publisher=[[Tampere University]] |access-date=19 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327114609/https://tampub.uta.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/92821/gradu00622.pdf |archive-date=27 March 2019}}</ref> As environmentalism has become more and more mainstream in recent decades, many far-right political parties have experimented with adding green politics to their platforms, while since the 2010s a number of terrorists internationally have cited ecofascism as their motive.<ref name="Vice Base 2020"/><ref name="Teen Vogue 2020"/>
In non-academic circles, the term "ecofascist" was originally used as a slur against the emerging environmental movement from the 1970s onwards, with [[André Gorz]] speaking of eco-fascism as early as 1977 to characterize (feared) forms of totalitarianism based on an exclusively ecological orientation of politics.<ref>{{cite book |first=André |last=Gorz |author-link=André Gorz |title=Ökologie und Politik |language=de |trans-title=Ecology and Politics |location=Rowohlt |publisher=Reinbek |date=1977 |page=75}}</ref> However, since the 2010s, a number of individuals and groups have emerged that either self-identify as "ecofascist" or have been labelled so by academic or journalistic sources.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/10/22/the-menace-of-eco-fascism/ |title=The Menace of Eco-Fascism |first=Matthew |last=Phelan |date=22 October 2018 |magazine=[[New York Review of Books]] |access-date=9 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200221000952/https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/10/22/the-menace-of-eco-fascism/ |archive-date=21 February 2020}}</ref> These individuals and groups synthesise radical [[far-right]] politics with environmentalism<ref>{{cite book |first1=Thomas |last1=Jahn |first2=Peter |last2=Wehling |title=Ökologie von rechts. Nationalismus und Umweltschutz bei der Neuen Rechten und den Republikanern |language=de |trans-title=Ecology from the right. Nationalism and environmentalism among the New Right and Republicans |location=Campus, Frankfurt/Main, New York |date=1991}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Jutta |last=Ditfurth |author-link=Jutta Ditfurth |title=Feuer in die Herzen. Plädoyer für eine ökologische linke Opposition |language=de |trans-title=Fire in the heart. Plea for an ecological left opposition |location=Hamburg |date=1992 |pages=278, 324}}</ref> and will typically advocate that overpopulation is the primary threat to the environment and that the only solution is to completely halt immigration, or at their most extreme, actively commit genocide against minority groups and ethnicities.{{r|Kamel, Lamoureux, Makuch}}{{r|Corcione, 2020}}<ref>{{cite thesis |type=Master's |url=https://tampub.uta.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/92821/gradu00622.pdf |last=Oksa |first=Juha |title=Antihumanismista antroposentrismiin. Ympäristöfilosofia ja ihmisen maailmassa oleminen. |language=fi |trans-title=From antihumanism to anthropocentrism. Environmental philosophy and human being in the world |date=August 2005 |publisher=[[Tampere University]] |access-date=19 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327114609/https://tampub.uta.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/92821/gradu00622.pdf |archive-date=27 March 2019}}</ref> As environmentalism has become more and more mainstream in recent decades, many far-right political parties have experimented with adding green politics to their platforms, while since the 2010s a number of terrorists internationally have cited ecofascism as their motive.{{r|Kamel, Lamoureux, Makuch}}{{r|Corcione, 2020}}{{sfn|Ross|Bevensee|2020|pp=4–9}}


== Definition ==
== Definition ==
In 2005, environmental historian [[Michael E. Zimmerman]] defined "ecofascism" as "a totalitarian government that requires individuals to sacrifice their interests to the well-being of the 'land', understood as the splendid web of life, or the organic whole of nature, including peoples and their states".<ref name=Zimmerman/> Zimmerman argued that while no ecofascist government has existed so far, "important aspects of it can be found in [[Nazism|German National Socialism]], one of whose central slogans was "[[Blood and Soil]]".<ref name=Zimmerman/> Other political agendas instead of environmental protection and prevention of climate change are nationalist approaches to climate such as ''national economic environmentalism'' and ''securitization of climate change''.<ref name="Huq Mochida 2018 p. ">{{cite journal |last1=Huq |first1=Efadul |last2=Mochida |first2=Henry |title=The Rise of Environmental Fascism and the Securitization of Climate Change |journal=Projections |publisher=[[MIT Press]] - Journals |date=30 March 2018 |doi=10.21428/6cb11bd5 |s2cid=149901653}}</ref>
In 2005, environmental historian [[Michael E. Zimmerman]] defined "ecofascism" as "a totalitarian government that requires individuals to sacrifice their interests to the well-being of the 'land', understood as the splendid web of life, or the organic whole of nature, including peoples and their states".{{sfn|Zimmerman|2008|pp=531}} Zimmerman argued that while no ecofascist government has existed so far, "important aspects of it can be found in [[Nazism|German National Socialism]], one of whose central slogans was "[[Blood and Soil]]".{{sfn|Zimmerman|2008|pp=531}} Other political agendas instead of environmental protection and prevention of climate change are nationalist approaches to climate such as ''national economic environmentalism'' and ''securitization of climate change''.<ref name="Huq Mochida 2018 p. ">{{cite journal |last1=Huq |first1=Efadul |last2=Mochida |first2=Henry |title=The Rise of Environmental Fascism and the Securitization of Climate Change |journal=Projections |publisher=[[MIT Press]] - Journals |date=30 March 2018 |doi=10.21428/6cb11bd5 |s2cid=149901653}}</ref>


[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]] has defined ecofascism as an ideology "which blames the demise of the environment on overpopulation, immigration, and over-industrialization, problems that followers think could be partly remedied through the mass murder of refugees in Western countries."<ref name="Vice Base 2020">{{cite news |last1=Kamel |first1=Zachary |last2=Lamoureux |first2=Mack |last3=Makuch |first3=Ben |date=20 January 2020 |title='Eco-fascist' Arm of Neo-Nazi Terror Group, The Base, Linked to Swedish Arson |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjdvzx/eco-fascist-arm-of-neo-nazi-terror-group-the-base-linked-to-swedish-arson |work=[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]] |access-date=22 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201110073846/https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjdvzx/eco-fascist-arm-of-neo-nazi-terror-group-the-base-linked-to-swedish-arson |archive-date=10 November 2020}}</ref> Environmentalist author [[Naomi Klein]] has suggested that ecofascists' primary objectives are to close borders to immigrants and, on the more extreme end, to embrace the idea of climate change as a divinely-ordained signal to begin a mass purge of sections of the human race. Ecofascism is "environmentalism through genocide", opined Klein.<ref name="Teen Vogue 2020">{{cite news |last=Corcione |first=Adryan |date=30 April 2020 |title=Eco-fascism: What It Is, Why It's Wrong, and How to Fight It |url=https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-is-ecofascism-explainer |work=[[Teen Vogue]] |access-date=22 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200621163553/https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-is-ecofascism-explainer |archive-date=21 June 2020}}</ref>
[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]] has defined ecofascism as an ideology "which blames the demise of the environment on overpopulation, immigration, and over-industrialization, problems that followers think could be partly remedied through the mass murder of refugees in Western countries."<ref name="Kamel, Lamoureux, Makuch">{{cite news |last1=Kamel |first1=Zachary |last2=Lamoureux |first2=Mack |last3=Makuch |first3=Ben |date=20 January 2020 |title='Eco-fascist' Arm of Neo-Nazi Terror Group, The Base, Linked to Swedish Arson |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjdvzx/eco-fascist-arm-of-neo-nazi-terror-group-the-base-linked-to-swedish-arson |work=[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]] |access-date=22 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201110073846/https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjdvzx/eco-fascist-arm-of-neo-nazi-terror-group-the-base-linked-to-swedish-arson |archive-date=10 November 2020}}</ref> Environmentalist author [[Naomi Klein]] has suggested that ecofascists' primary objectives are to close borders to immigrants and, on the more extreme end, to embrace the idea of climate change as a divinely-ordained signal to begin a mass purge of sections of the human race. Ecofascism is "environmentalism through genocide", opined Klein.<ref name="Corcione, 2020">{{cite news |last=Corcione |first=Adryan |date=30 April 2020 |title=Eco-fascism: What It Is, Why It's Wrong, and How to Fight It |url=https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-is-ecofascism-explainer |work=[[Teen Vogue]] |access-date=22 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200621163553/https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-is-ecofascism-explainer |archive-date=21 June 2020}}</ref> Political researcher Alex Amend defined ecofascist belief as "The devaluing of human life—particularly of populations seen as inferior—in order to protect the environment viewed as essential to White identity."<ref>{{cite web |last=Amend |first=Alex |title=Blood and Vanishing Topsoil: American Ecofascism Past, Present, and in the Coming Climate Crisis |date=9 July 2020 |url=https://politicalresearch.org/2020/07/09/blood-and-vanishing-topsoil |website=Political Research Associates |access-date=27 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201003013348/https://politicalresearch.org/2020/07/09/blood-and-vanishing-topsoil |archive-date=3 October 2020}}</ref>

Terrorism researcher Kristy Campion defined ecofascism as "a reactionary and revolutionary ideology that champions the regeneration of an imagined community through a return to a romanticised, ethnopluralist vision of the natural order."<ref>{{cite journal |first=Kristy |last=Campion |date=2021 |title=Defining Ecofascism: Historical Foundations and Contemporary Interpretations in the Extreme Right |journal=Terrorism and Political Violence |publisher=[[Routledge]] |doi=10.1080/09546553.2021.1987895}}</ref>

Helen Cawood and Xany Jansen Van Vuuren have criticised previous attempts to define ecofascism as focussing too heavily on environmental and ecological conservationism in historical fascist movements, and their definitions being too broad and encompassing many ontologically different ideologies.{{sfn|Cawood|Vuuren|2022|pp=90–92}} In their criticism they summarise the current definition of ecofascism as used in the academic literature as "a movement that uses environmental and ecological conservationist talking points to push an ideology of ethnic or racial separatism".{{sfn|Cawood|Vuuren|2022|pp=89–91}}


== Ideological origins ==
== Ideological origins ==
=== Madison Grant ===
=== Madison Grant ===
Sometimes dubbed the "founding father" of ecofascism,<ref name="AIER">{{cite web |url=https://www.aier.org/article/the-founding-father-of-eco-fascism/ |title=The Founding Father of Eco-Fascism |last=Tucker |first=Jeffrey A. |author-link=Jeffrey Tucker |date=17 March 2019 |publisher=[[American Institute for Economic Research]] |access-date=22 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020030126/https://www.aier.org/article/the-founding-father-of-eco-fascism/ |archive-date=20 October 2020}}</ref><ref name="Darby 2019">{{cite web |first=Luke |last=Darby |access-date=28 August 2020 |title=What Is Eco-Fascism, the Ideology Behind Attacks in El Paso and Christchurch? |url=https://www.gq.com/story/what-is-eco-fascism |date=7 August 2019 |work=[[GQ Magazine]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806221914/https://www.gq.com/story/what-is-eco-fascism |archive-date=6 August 2020}}</ref> [[Madison Grant]] was a pioneer of [[conservationism]] in America in the late 19th and early 20th century. Grant is credited as a founder of modern wildlife management. Grant built the [[Bronx River Parkway]], was a co-founder of the [[American Bison Society]], and helped create [[Glacier National Park (U.S.)|Glacier National Park]], [[Olympic National Park]], [[Everglades National Park]] and [[Denali National Park]]. As president of the [[New York Zoological Society]], he founded the [[Bronx Zoo]] in 1899.<ref name="Codastory">{{cite news |last=Patin |first=Katia |date=19 January 2021 |title=The rise of eco-fascism |url=https://www.codastory.com/waronscience/the-rise-of-eco-fascism/ |access-date=22 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210119132820/https://www.codastory.com/waronscience/the-rise-of-eco-fascism/ |archive-date=19 January 2021}}</ref>
Sometimes dubbed the "founding father" of ecofascism,<ref name="Tucker, 2019">{{cite web |url=https://www.aier.org/article/the-founding-father-of-eco-fascism/ |title=The Founding Father of Eco-Fascism |last=Tucker |first=Jeffrey A. |author-link=Jeffrey Tucker |date=17 March 2019 |publisher=[[American Institute for Economic Research]] |access-date=22 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020030126/https://www.aier.org/article/the-founding-father-of-eco-fascism/ |archive-date=20 October 2020}}</ref><ref name="Darby, 2019">{{cite web |first=Luke |last=Darby |access-date=28 August 2020 |title=What Is Eco-Fascism, the Ideology Behind Attacks in El Paso and Christchurch? |url=https://www.gq.com/story/what-is-eco-fascism |date=7 August 2019 |work=[[GQ Magazine]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806221914/https://www.gq.com/story/what-is-eco-fascism |archive-date=6 August 2020}}</ref> [[Madison Grant]] was a pioneer of [[conservationism]] in America in the late 19th and early 20th century. Grant is credited as a founder of modern wildlife management. Grant built the [[Bronx River Parkway]], was a co-founder of the [[American Bison Society]], and helped create [[Glacier National Park (U.S.)|Glacier National Park]], [[Olympic National Park]], [[Everglades National Park]] and [[Denali National Park]]. As president of the [[New York Zoological Society]], he founded the [[Bronx Zoo]] in 1899.<ref name="Patin, 2021">{{cite news |last=Patin |first=Katia |date=19 January 2021 |title=The rise of eco-fascism |url=https://www.codastory.com/waronscience/the-rise-of-eco-fascism/ |access-date=22 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210119132820/https://www.codastory.com/waronscience/the-rise-of-eco-fascism/ |archive-date=19 January 2021}}</ref>


In addition to his conservationist work, Grant was a trenchant [[Racism|racist]]. In 1906, Grant supported the placement of [[Ota Benga]], a member of the [[Mbuti]] people who was kidnapped, removed from his home in the Congo, and put on display in the [[Bronx Zoo]] as an exhibit in the Monkey House.<ref name="AIER"/><ref name="Darby 2019"/> In 1916, Grant wrote [[The Passing of the Great Race]], a work of [[Pseudoscience|pseudoscientific literature]] which claimed to give an account of the anthropological [[history of Europe]]. The book divides Europeans into three races; Alpines, Mediterraneans and Nordics, and it also claims that the first two races are inferior to the superior Nordic race, which is the only race which is fit to rule the earth. [[Adolf Hitler]] would later describe Grant's book as "his bible" and Grant's "[[Nordicism|Nordic theory]]" became the bedrock of [[Nazi racial theories]].<ref name="Codastory"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://lacuna.org.uk/environment/ecofascism-the-dark-side-of-environmentalism/ |title=Ecofascism: The dark side of environmentalism |last=Weymouth |first=Adam |date=21 April 2021 |access-date=22 December 2021 |quote= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210729155642/https://lacuna.org.uk/environment/ecofascism-the-dark-side-of-environmentalism/ |archive-date=29 July 2021}}</ref><ref name="Sparrow 2019">{{cite news |last=Sparrow |first=Jeff |date=29 November 2019 |title=Eco-fascists and the ugly fight for 'our way of life' as the environment disintegrates |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/30/eco-fascists-and-the-ugly-fight-for-our-way-of-life-as-the-environment-disintegrates |work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=22 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191201045204/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/30/eco-fascists-and-the-ugly-fight-for-our-way-of-life-as-the-environment-disintegrates |archive-date=1 December 2019}}</ref> Additionally, Grant was a [[Eugenics|eugenicist]]: He was the director of the [[American Eugenics Society]] and he also advocated the culling of the unfit from the human population. Grant concocted a 100-year plan to perfect the human race, a plan in which one ethnic group after another would be killed off until [[Racial hygiene|racial purity]] would be obtained.<ref name="AIER"/> Grant campaigned for the passage of the [[Emergency Quota Act of 1921]] and he also campaigned for the passage of the [[Immigration Restriction Act of 1924]], which drastically reduced the number of immigrants from [[Eastern Europe]] and [[Asia]] who were allowed to enter the United States.<ref name="Sparrow 2019"/>
In addition to his conservationist work, Grant was a trenchant [[Racism|racist]]. In 1906, Grant supported the placement of [[Ota Benga]], a member of the [[Mbuti]] people who was kidnapped, removed from his home in the Congo, and put on display in the [[Bronx Zoo]] as an exhibit in the Monkey House.{{r|Tucker, 2019}}{{r|Darby, 2019}} In 1916, Grant wrote [[The Passing of the Great Race]], a work of [[Pseudoscience|pseudoscientific literature]] which claimed to give an account of the anthropological [[history of Europe]]. The book divides Europeans into three races; Alpines, Mediterraneans and Nordics, and it also claims that the first two races are inferior to the superior Nordic race, which is the only race which is fit to rule the earth. [[Adolf Hitler]] would later describe Grant's book as "his bible" and Grant's "[[Nordicism|Nordic theory]]" became the bedrock of [[Nazi racial theories]].{{r|Patin, 2021}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://lacuna.org.uk/environment/ecofascism-the-dark-side-of-environmentalism/ |title=Ecofascism: The dark side of environmentalism |last=Weymouth |first=Adam |date=21 April 2021 |access-date=22 December 2021 |quote= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210729155642/https://lacuna.org.uk/environment/ecofascism-the-dark-side-of-environmentalism/ |archive-date=29 July 2021}}</ref><ref name="Sparrow, 2019">{{cite news |last=Sparrow |first=Jeff |date=29 November 2019 |title=Eco-fascists and the ugly fight for 'our way of life' as the environment disintegrates |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/30/eco-fascists-and-the-ugly-fight-for-our-way-of-life-as-the-environment-disintegrates |work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=22 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191201045204/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/30/eco-fascists-and-the-ugly-fight-for-our-way-of-life-as-the-environment-disintegrates |archive-date=1 December 2019}}</ref> Additionally, Grant was a [[Eugenics|eugenicist]]: He was the director of the [[American Eugenics Society]] and he also advocated the culling of the unfit from the human population. Grant concocted a 100-year plan to perfect the human race, a plan in which one ethnic group after another would be killed off until [[Racial hygiene|racial purity]] would be obtained.{{r|Tucker, 2019}} Grant campaigned for the passage of the [[Emergency Quota Act of 1921]] and he also campaigned for the passage of the [[Immigration Restriction Act of 1924]], which drastically reduced the number of immigrants from [[Eastern Europe]] and [[Asia]] who were allowed to enter the United States.{{r|Sparrow, 2019}}


In the modern era, Grant's ideas have been cited by advocates of [[far-right politics]] such as [[Richard B. Spencer|Richard Spencer]]<ref name="Codastory"/> and [[Anders Breivik]].<ref name="Darby 2019"/><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Adler-Bell |first=Sam |date=24 September 2019 |title=Why White Supremacists Are Hooked on Green Living |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/154971/rise-ecofascism-history-white-nationalism-environmental-preservation-immigration |magazine=[[The New Republic]] |access-date=21 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191114162308/https://newrepublic.com/article/154971/rise-ecofascism-history-white-nationalism-environmental-preservation-immigration |archive-date=14 November 2019}}</ref>
In the modern era, Grant's ideas have been cited by advocates of [[far-right politics]] such as [[Richard B. Spencer|Richard Spencer]]{{r|Patin, 2021}} and [[Anders Breivik]].{{r|Darby, 2019}}<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Adler-Bell |first=Sam |date=24 September 2019 |title=Why White Supremacists Are Hooked on Green Living |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/154971/rise-ecofascism-history-white-nationalism-environmental-preservation-immigration |magazine=[[The New Republic]] |access-date=21 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191114162308/https://newrepublic.com/article/154971/rise-ecofascism-history-white-nationalism-environmental-preservation-immigration |archive-date=14 November 2019}}</ref>


=== Nazism ===
=== Nazism ===
The authors [[Janet Biehl]] and Peter Staudenmaier suggest that the synthesis of fascism and environmentalism began with [[Nazism]]. In their book ''Ecofascism: Lessons from the German Experience'', they note the Nazi Party's interest in ecology, and suggest their interest was "linked with traditional agrarian romanticism and hostility to urban civilization".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://environment-ecology.com/deep-ecology/278-ecofascism-deep-ecology-and-right-wing-co-optation.html |title=Ecofascism: Deep Ecology and Right-Wing Co-optation |first=Kev |last=Smith |website=Environment and Ecology |access-date=14 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230213204349/http://environment-ecology.com/deep-ecology/278-ecofascism-deep-ecology-and-right-wing-co-optation.html |archive-date=13 February 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Olsen |first=Jonathan |date=1999 |title=Nature and Nationalism: Right-Wing Ecology and the Politics of Identity |location=New York |publisher=[[St. Martin's Press]]}}</ref> With Zimmerman pointing to the works of conservationist and Nazi [[Walther Schoenichen]] as having pertinence to later ecofascism and similarities to developments in deep ecological understanding.<ref name="An Enduring Temptation">{{cite book |first=Michael E. |last=Zimmerman |author-link=Michael E. Zimmerman |chapter=Ecofascism: An Enduring Temptation |title=Environmental Philosophy: From Animal Rights to Radical Ecology |editor1-first=Michael E. |editor1-last=Zimmerman |editor1-link=Michael E. Zimmerman |editor2-first=J. Baird |editor2-last=Callicott |editor3-first=John |editor3-last=Clark |editor4-first=Karen J. |editor4-last=Warren |editor5-first=Irene J. |editor5-last=Klaver |date=4 June 2004 |edition=4 |publisher=[[Prentice Hall]] |isbn=978-0131126954}}</ref> During the Nazi rise to power, there was strong support for the Nazis among German environmentalists and conservationists.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Franz-Josef |last1=Brüggemeier |first2=Mark |last2=Cioc |first3=Thomas |last3=Zeller |title=How Green Were the Nazis?: Nature, Environment, and Nation in the Third Reich |publisher=[[Ohio University Press]] |date=2005}}</ref> [[Richard Walther Darré]], a leading Nazi ideologist who invented the term "[[Blood and Soil]]", developed a concept of the nation having a mystic connection with their homeland, and as such, the nation was dutybound to take care of the land. Because of this, modern ecofascists cite the Nazi Party as an origin point of ecofascism.<ref name="Jason Wilson">{{cite news |last=Wilson |first=Jason |date=19 March 2019 |title=Eco-fascism is undergoing a revival in the fetid culture of the extreme right |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2019/mar/20/eco-fascism-is-undergoing-a-revival-in-the-fetid-culture-of-the-extreme-right |work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=19 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190602031257/https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2019/mar/20/eco-fascism-is-undergoing-a-revival-in-the-fetid-culture-of-the-extreme-right |archive-date=2 June 2019}}</ref><ref name="Tom Bennett">{{cite news |last=Bennett |first=Tom |date=10 April 2019 |title=Understanding the Alt-Right's Growing Fascination with 'Eco-Fascism' |url=https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vbw55j/understanding-the-alt-rights-growing-fascination-with-eco-fascism |work=[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]] |access-date=19 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128092706/https://www.vice.com/en/article/vbw55j/understanding-the-alt-rights-growing-fascination-with-eco-fascism |archive-date=28 November 2020}}</ref> Beyond Darré, [[Rudolf Hess]] and [[Fritz Todt]] are viewed as representatives of environmentalism within the Nazi party.<ref>{{cite book |last=Dahl |first=Göran |date=2006 |title=Radikalare än Hitler?: de esoteriska och grona nazisterna, Inspirationskallor, Pionjarer, Forvaltare, Attlingarby |language=sv |trans-title=More radical than Hitler?: The esoteric and verdant Nazis, Pioneers, Trustees, Attlingarby |publisher=Atlantis |pages=136–145 |isbn=91-7353-122-7 |oclc=225237172}}</ref> [[Roger Griffin]] has also pointed to the glorification of wildlife in Nazi art and ruralism in the novels of the fascist sympathizers [[Knut Hamsun]] and [[Henry Williamson]] as examples.<ref name="Griffin, 2008">{{cite encyclopedia |title=Fascism |first=Roger |last=Griffin |author-link=Roger Griffin |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature |editor-first=Bron |editor-last=Taylor |editor-link=Bron Taylor |publisher=[[Continuum International Publishing Group]] |date=2008 |pages=639–644}}</ref>
The authors [[Janet Biehl]] and Peter Staudenmaier suggest that the synthesis of fascism and environmentalism began with [[Nazism]], stating that 19th and 20th century Germany was early ground of ecofascist thought, finding its antecedents in many prominent natural scientists and environmentalists, including [[Ernst Moritz Arndt]], [[Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl]], and [[Ernst Haeckel]]. With the works and ideas of such individuals being later established as policies in the Nazi regime.{{sfn|Dyett|Thomas|2019|pp=217–219}} This is supported by other researchers who identify the [[Völkisch movement]] as an ideological originator of later ecofascism.{{sfn|Ross|Bevensee|2020|pp=9–10}} In Biehl and Staudenmaier's book ''Ecofascism: Lessons from the German Experience'', they note the Nazi Party's interest in ecology, and suggest their interest was "linked with traditional agrarian romanticism and hostility to urban civilization".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://environment-ecology.com/deep-ecology/278-ecofascism-deep-ecology-and-right-wing-co-optation.html |title=Ecofascism: Deep Ecology and Right-Wing Co-optation |first=Kev |last=Smith |website=Environment and Ecology |access-date=14 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230213204349/http://environment-ecology.com/deep-ecology/278-ecofascism-deep-ecology-and-right-wing-co-optation.html |archive-date=13 February 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Olsen |first=Jonathan |date=1999 |title=Nature and Nationalism: Right-Wing Ecology and the Politics of Identity |location=New York |publisher=[[St. Martin's Press]]}}</ref> With Zimmerman pointing to the works of conservationist and Nazi [[Walther Schoenichen]] as having pertinence to later ecofascism and similarities to developments in deep ecological understanding.<ref name="Zimmerman, 2004">{{cite book |first=Michael E. |last=Zimmerman |author-link=Michael E. Zimmerman |chapter=Ecofascism: An Enduring Temptation |title=Environmental Philosophy: From Animal Rights to Radical Ecology |editor1-first=Michael E. |editor1-last=Zimmerman |editor1-link=Michael E. Zimmerman |editor2-first=J. Baird |editor2-last=Callicott |editor3-first=John |editor3-last=Clark |editor4-first=Karen J. |editor4-last=Warren |editor5-first=Irene J. |editor5-last=Klaver |date=4 June 2004 |edition=4 |publisher=[[Prentice Hall]] |isbn=978-0131126954}}</ref> During the Nazi rise to power, there was strong support for the Nazis among German environmentalists and conservationists.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Franz-Josef |last1=Brüggemeier |first2=Mark |last2=Cioc |first3=Thomas |last3=Zeller |title=How Green Were the Nazis?: Nature, Environment, and Nation in the Third Reich |publisher=[[Ohio University Press]] |date=2005}}</ref> [[Richard Walther Darré]], a leading Nazi ideologist who invented the term "[[Blood and Soil]]", developed a concept of the nation having a mystic connection with their homeland, and as such, the nation was dutybound to take care of the land. Because of this, modern ecofascists cite the Nazi Party as an origin point of ecofascism.<ref name="Wilson, 2019">{{cite news |last=Wilson |first=Jason |date=19 March 2019 |title=Eco-fascism is undergoing a revival in the fetid culture of the extreme right |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2019/mar/20/eco-fascism-is-undergoing-a-revival-in-the-fetid-culture-of-the-extreme-right |work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=19 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190602031257/https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2019/mar/20/eco-fascism-is-undergoing-a-revival-in-the-fetid-culture-of-the-extreme-right |archive-date=2 June 2019}}</ref><ref name="Bennett, 2019">{{cite news |last=Bennett |first=Tom |date=10 April 2019 |title=Understanding the Alt-Right's Growing Fascination with 'Eco-Fascism' |url=https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vbw55j/understanding-the-alt-rights-growing-fascination-with-eco-fascism |work=[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]] |access-date=19 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128092706/https://www.vice.com/en/article/vbw55j/understanding-the-alt-rights-growing-fascination-with-eco-fascism |archive-date=28 November 2020}}</ref> Beyond Darré, [[Rudolf Hess]] and [[Fritz Todt]] are viewed as representatives of environmentalism within the Nazi party.<ref>{{cite book |last=Dahl |first=Göran |date=2006 |title=Radikalare än Hitler?: de esoteriska och grona nazisterna, Inspirationskallor, Pionjarer, Forvaltare, Attlingarby |language=sv |trans-title=More radical than Hitler?: The esoteric and verdant Nazis, Pioneers, Trustees, Attlingarby |publisher=Atlantis |pages=136–145 |isbn=91-7353-122-7 |oclc=225237172}}</ref> [[Roger Griffin]] has also pointed to the glorification of wildlife in Nazi art and ruralism in the novels of the fascist sympathizers [[Knut Hamsun]] and [[Henry Williamson]] as examples.<ref name="Griffin, 2008">{{cite encyclopedia |title=Fascism |first=Roger |last=Griffin |author-link=Roger Griffin |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature |editor-first=Bron |editor-last=Taylor |editor-link=Bron Taylor |publisher=[[Continuum International Publishing Group]] |date=2008 |pages=639–644}}</ref>


After the outlawing of the [[Neo-Nazism#Germany and Austria, 1945–1950s|neo-nazi]] [[Socialist Reich Party]], one of its members [[August Haußleiter]] moved towards organizing within the [[environmental movement|environmental]] and [[anti-nuclear movement]]s, going on to become a founding member of the [[Alliance 90/The Greens|German Green Party]]. When green activists later uncovered his past activities in the neo-nazi movement, Haußleiter was forced to step down as the party's chairman, although he continued to hold a central role in the party newspaper. As efforts to expel nationalist elements within the party continued, a [[Green conservatism|conservative]] faction split off and founded the [[Ecological Democratic Party]], which became noted for persistent [[holocaust denial]], rejection of [[social justice]] and [[opposition to immigration]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Lee |first=Martin A. |author-link=Martin A. Lee |title=The Beast Reawakens: Fascism's Resurgence from Hitler's Spymasters to Today's Neo-Nazi Groups and Right-Wing Extremists |location=[[New York City|New York]] |publisher=[[Routledge]] |year=2000 |pages=217–218 |isbn=0415925460 |oclc=1106702367 |url=https://archive.org/details/beastreawakens0000leem_y3k9}}</ref>
After the outlawing of the [[Neo-Nazism#Germany and Austria, 1945–1950s|neo-nazi]] [[Socialist Reich Party]], one of its members [[August Haußleiter]] moved towards organizing within the [[environmental movement|environmental]] and [[anti-nuclear movement]]s, going on to become a founding member of the [[Alliance 90/The Greens|German Green Party]]. When green activists later uncovered his past activities in the neo-nazi movement, Haußleiter was forced to step down as the party's chairman, although he continued to hold a central role in the party newspaper. As efforts to expel nationalist elements within the party continued, a [[Green conservatism|conservative]] faction split off and founded the [[Ecological Democratic Party]], which became noted for persistent [[holocaust denial]], rejection of [[social justice]] and [[opposition to immigration]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Lee |first=Martin A. |author-link=Martin A. Lee |title=The Beast Reawakens: Fascism's Resurgence from Hitler's Spymasters to Today's Neo-Nazi Groups and Right-Wing Extremists |location=[[New York City|New York]] |publisher=[[Routledge]] |year=2000 |pages=217–218 |isbn=0415925460 |oclc=1106702367 |url=https://archive.org/details/beastreawakens0000leem_y3k9}}</ref>
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[[Ted Kaczynski]], better known as "The Unabomber", is a figure cited as highly influential upon ecofascist thought. Between 1978 and 1995 Kaczynski instigated a terrorist bombing campaign aimed at inciting a revolution against modern industrial society, in the name of returning humanity to a primitive state he suggested offered humanity more freedom while protecting the environment. In 1995 Kaczynski offered to end his bombing campaign if ''[[The Washington Post]]'' or ''[[The New York Times]]'' would publish his 35,000-word [[Unabomber manifesto]]. Hoping to save lives, both newspapers agreed to those terms. The manifesto railed not only against modern industrial society but also against "modern leftists", whom Kaczynski defined as "mainly [[socialists]], collectivists, 'politically correct' types, [[feminism|feminists]], gay and disability activists, animal rights activists and the like".<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1998/04/23/varieties-of-madness/ |title=Varieties of Madness |first=Joan |last=Didion |magazine=The New York Review of Books |date=23 April 1998 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170813223357/http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1998/04/23/varieties-of-madness/ |archive-date=13 August 2017}}</ref>
[[Ted Kaczynski]], better known as "The Unabomber", is a figure cited as highly influential upon ecofascist thought. Between 1978 and 1995 Kaczynski instigated a terrorist bombing campaign aimed at inciting a revolution against modern industrial society, in the name of returning humanity to a primitive state he suggested offered humanity more freedom while protecting the environment. In 1995 Kaczynski offered to end his bombing campaign if ''[[The Washington Post]]'' or ''[[The New York Times]]'' would publish his 35,000-word [[Unabomber manifesto]]. Hoping to save lives, both newspapers agreed to those terms. The manifesto railed not only against modern industrial society but also against "modern leftists", whom Kaczynski defined as "mainly [[socialists]], collectivists, 'politically correct' types, [[feminism|feminists]], gay and disability activists, animal rights activists and the like".<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1998/04/23/varieties-of-madness/ |title=Varieties of Madness |first=Joan |last=Didion |magazine=The New York Review of Books |date=23 April 1998 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170813223357/http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1998/04/23/varieties-of-madness/ |archive-date=13 August 2017}}</ref>


Because of Kaczynski's intelligence and ability to write in a high-level academic tone, his manifesto was given [[Ted Kaczynski#Reception|serious consideration upon release]] and became highly influential, even amongst those who severely disagreed with his use of violence. Kaczynski's staunchly radical pro-green, anti-left work was quickly absorbed into ecofascist thought.<ref name="Jason Wilson"/>
Because of Kaczynski's intelligence and ability to write in a high-level academic tone, his manifesto was given [[Ted Kaczynski#Reception|serious consideration upon release]] and became highly influential, even amongst those who severely disagreed with his use of violence. Kaczynski's staunchly radical pro-green, anti-left work was quickly absorbed into ecofascist thought.{{r|Wilson, 2019}}


Kaczynski also criticized the right wing for their support for technological and economic progress while complaining about a decay of tradition, stating that technology erodes traditional social mores that conservatives and right wingers want to protect, and referred to conservatives as fools.<ref>{{Cite news |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=1997 |title=The Unabomber Trial: The Manifesto |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabomber/manifesto.text.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210222000650/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabomber/manifesto.text.htm |archive-date=22 February 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref>
Kaczynski also criticized the right wing for their support for technological and economic progress while complaining about a decay of tradition, stating that technology erodes traditional social mores that conservatives and right wingers want to protect, and referred to conservatives as fools.<ref>{{Cite news |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=1997 |title=The Unabomber Trial: The Manifesto |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabomber/manifesto.text.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210222000650/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabomber/manifesto.text.htm |archive-date=22 February 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref>


Although Kaczynski and his manifesto has been embraced by ecofascists,<ref name="Jason Wilson"/> he rejected 'fascism',<ref name = "onlinerevival">{{cite magazine |last1=Hanrahan |first1=Jake |author1-link=Jake Hanrahan |title=Inside the Unabomber's odd and furious online revival |url=https://www.wired.co.uk/article/unabomber-netflix-tv-series-ted-kaczynski |access-date=11 May 2021 |magazine=[[Wired UK]] |date=1 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401053547/https://www.wired.co.uk/article/unabomber-netflix-tv-series-ted-kaczynski |archive-date=1 April 2019}}</ref> including ''specifically'' "the 'ecofascists'", describing 'ecofascism' itself as 'an aberrant branch of leftism':<ref name='aberrant'>{{Cite web |title=Ecofascism: An Aberrant Branch of Leftism |url=https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ted-kaczynski-ecofascism-an-aberrant-branch-of-leftism |access-date=21 February 2022 |website=The Anarchist Library |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite thesis |url=https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/96491/1/Master-s-thesis-by-Vilde-Skauge-Monsen.pdf |title="Save the bees, not refugees": Far-right environmentalism meets the Internet (A comparative content analysis of Nazi Germany’s environmentalism and four self-proclaimed ecofascist channels on Telegram) |type=Master's |first=Vilde |last=Skauge-Monsen |publisher=[[University of Oslo]], Department of media and communication |date=1 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221211194212/https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/96491/1/Master-s-thesis-by-Vilde-Skauge-Monsen.pdf |archive-date=11 December 2022}}</ref>
Although Kaczynski and his manifesto has been embraced by ecofascists,{{r|Wilson, 2019}} he rejected 'fascism',<ref name = "Hanrahan, 2018">{{cite magazine |last1=Hanrahan |first1=Jake |author1-link=Jake Hanrahan |title=Inside the Unabomber's odd and furious online revival |url=https://www.wired.co.uk/article/unabomber-netflix-tv-series-ted-kaczynski |access-date=11 May 2021 |magazine=[[Wired UK]] |date=1 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401053547/https://www.wired.co.uk/article/unabomber-netflix-tv-series-ted-kaczynski |archive-date=1 April 2019}}</ref> including ''specifically'' "the 'ecofascists'", describing 'ecofascism' itself as 'an aberrant branch of leftism':<ref name='aberrant'>{{Cite web |title=Ecofascism: An Aberrant Branch of Leftism |url=https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ted-kaczynski-ecofascism-an-aberrant-branch-of-leftism |access-date=21 February 2022 |website=The Anarchist Library |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite thesis |url=https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/96491/1/Master-s-thesis-by-Vilde-Skauge-Monsen.pdf |title="Save the bees, not refugees": Far-right environmentalism meets the Internet (A comparative content analysis of Nazi Germany’s environmentalism and four self-proclaimed ecofascist channels on Telegram) |type=Master's |first=Vilde |last=Skauge-Monsen |publisher=[[University of Oslo]], Department of media and communication |date=1 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221211194212/https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/96491/1/Master-s-thesis-by-Vilde-Skauge-Monsen.pdf |archive-date=11 December 2022}}</ref>
{{blockquote|The true anti-tech movement rejects every form of racism or ethnocentrism. This has nothing to do with "[[tolerance]]," "diversity," "pluralism," "[[multiculturalism]]," "equality," or "[[social justice]]." The rejection of [[racism]] and [[ethnocentrism]] is - purely and simply - a cardinal point of strategy.<ref name='aberrant'/>}}
{{blockquote|The true anti-tech movement rejects every form of racism or ethnocentrism. This has nothing to do with "[[tolerance]]," "diversity," "pluralism," "[[multiculturalism]]," "equality," or "[[social justice]]." The rejection of [[racism]] and [[ethnocentrism]] is - purely and simply - a cardinal point of strategy.<ref name='aberrant'/>}}


In his manifesto Kaczynski wrote that he considered fascism a "kook ideology" and Nazism as "evil".<ref name = "onlinerevival"/> Kaczynski never tried to align himself with the far-right at any point before or after his arrest.<ref name = "onlinerevival"/>
In his manifesto Kaczynski wrote that he considered fascism a "kook ideology" and Nazism as "evil".{{r|Hanrahan, 2018}} Kaczynski never tried to align himself with the far-right at any point before or after his arrest.{{r|Hanrahan, 2018}}


In 2017 Netflix released a dramatisation of Kaczynski's life, entitled ''[[Manhunt: Unabomber]]''. The popularity of the show thrust Kaczynski and his manifesto once again into the public's mind and raised the profile of ecofascism.<ref name="Jason Wilson"/><ref name="Tom Bennett"/><ref name = "onlinerevival"/>
In 2017 Netflix released a dramatisation of Kaczynski's life, entitled ''[[Manhunt: Unabomber]]''. The popularity of the show thrust Kaczynski and his manifesto once again into the public's mind and raised the profile of ecofascism.{{r|Wilson, 2019}}{{r|Bennett, 2019}}{{r|Hanrahan, 2018}}


=== Garrett Hardin, Pentti Linkola, and "Lifeboat Ethics" ===
=== Garrett Hardin, Pentti Linkola, and "Lifeboat Ethics" ===
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Two figures influential in ecofascism are [[Garrett Hardin]] and [[Pentti Linkola]], both of whom were proponents of what they refer to as "Lifeboat Ethics". Hardin was an American ecologist accused by the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]] of being a [[white nationalist]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/garrett-hardin |title=Garrett Hardin |website=[[Southern Poverty Law Center]] |language=en |access-date=20 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211115125605/https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/garrett-hardin |archive-date=15 November 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref> whilst Linkola was a Finnish ecologist accused of being an active ecofascist who actively advocated ending [[democracy]] and replacing it with dictatorships that would use [[totalitarian]] and even genocidal tactics to end [[climate change]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/154971/rise-ecofascism-history-white-nationalism-environmental-preservation-immigration |title=Why White Supremacists Are Hooked on Green Living |last=Adler-Bell |first=Sam |date=24 September 2019 |website=NewRepublic.com |publisher=[[The New Republic|New Republic]] |access-date=19 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211103175103/https://newrepublic.com/article/154971/rise-ecofascism-history-white-nationalism-environmental-preservation-immigration |archive-date=3 November 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |work=[[Der Tagesspiegel]] |first=André |last=Anwar |url=http://www.tagesspiegel.de/meinung/kommentare/es-hilft-nicht-kameraden-zu-erschiessen/1094076.html |title=Pentti Linkola: "Es hilft nicht, Kameraden zu erschießen" |language=de |trans-title=Pentti Linkola: "It doesn't help to shoot comrades" |date=13 November 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150120110600/http://www.tagesspiegel.de/meinung/kommentare/pentti-linkola-es-hilft-nicht-kameraden-zu-erschiessen/1094076.html |archive-date=20 January 2015}}</ref> Both men used versions of the following analogy to illustrate their viewpoint:
Two figures influential in ecofascism are [[Garrett Hardin]] and [[Pentti Linkola]], both of whom were proponents of what they refer to as "Lifeboat Ethics". Hardin was an American ecologist accused by the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]] of being a [[white nationalist]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/garrett-hardin |title=Garrett Hardin |website=[[Southern Poverty Law Center]] |language=en |access-date=20 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211115125605/https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/garrett-hardin |archive-date=15 November 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref> whilst Linkola was a Finnish ecologist accused of being an active ecofascist who actively advocated ending [[democracy]] and replacing it with dictatorships that would use [[totalitarian]] and even genocidal tactics to end [[climate change]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/154971/rise-ecofascism-history-white-nationalism-environmental-preservation-immigration |title=Why White Supremacists Are Hooked on Green Living |last=Adler-Bell |first=Sam |date=24 September 2019 |website=NewRepublic.com |publisher=[[The New Republic|New Republic]] |access-date=19 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211103175103/https://newrepublic.com/article/154971/rise-ecofascism-history-white-nationalism-environmental-preservation-immigration |archive-date=3 November 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |work=[[Der Tagesspiegel]] |first=André |last=Anwar |url=http://www.tagesspiegel.de/meinung/kommentare/es-hilft-nicht-kameraden-zu-erschiessen/1094076.html |title=Pentti Linkola: "Es hilft nicht, Kameraden zu erschießen" |language=de |trans-title=Pentti Linkola: "It doesn't help to shoot comrades" |date=13 November 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150120110600/http://www.tagesspiegel.de/meinung/kommentare/pentti-linkola-es-hilft-nicht-kameraden-zu-erschiessen/1094076.html |archive-date=20 January 2015}}</ref> Both men used versions of the following analogy to illustrate their viewpoint:


{{cquote|What to do, when a ship carrying a hundred passengers suddenly capsizes and there is only one lifeboat? When the lifeboat is full, those who hate life will try to load it with more people and sink the lot. Those who love and respect life will take the ship's axe and sever the extra hands that cling to the sides.<ref name="Jason Wilson"/><ref name="Tom Bennett"/>|Pentti Linkola}}
{{cquote|What to do, when a ship carrying a hundred passengers suddenly capsizes and there is only one lifeboat? When the lifeboat is full, those who hate life will try to load it with more people and sink the lot. Those who love and respect life will take the ship's axe and sever the extra hands that cling to the sides.{{r|Wilson, 2019}}{{r|Bennett, 2019}}|Pentti Linkola}}


== Association with violence ==
== Association with violence ==
Academics and researchers warn that as ecoLogical crises worsen and remain unaddressed support for ecofascism and violence in the name of ecofascism will increase.{{sfn|Dyett|Thomas|2019|p=220}}

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Brenton Tarrant, the [[Australia|Australian]]-born perpetrator of the [[Christchurch mosque shootings]] in [[New Zealand]] described himself as an ecofascist,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Koziol |first1=Michael |title=Christchurch shooter's manifesto reveals |url=https://www.smh.com.au/world/oceania/christchurch-shooter-s-manifesto-reveals-an-obsession-with-white-supremacy-over-muslims-20190315-p514ko.html |date=15 March 2019 |publisher=Sydney Morning Herald |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211028102613/https://www.smh.com.au/world/oceania/christchurch-shooter-s-manifesto-reveals-an-obsession-with-white-supremacy-over-muslims-20190315-p514ko.html |archive-date=28 October 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Achenbach">{{cite news |last=Achenbach |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Achenbach |title=Two mass killings a world apart share a common theme: 'ecofascism': Environmental groups denounce racists who cloak themselves in green |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=18 August 2019 |via=[[ProQuest]]}}</ref><ref name="Reporterre 2">{{cite web |language=fr |first=Gaspard |last=d’Allens |url=https://reporterre.net/Enquete-sur-l-ecofascisme-comment-l-extreme-droite-veut-recuperer-l-ecologie |title=Enquête sur l’écofascisme: comment l’extrême droite veut récupérer l’écologie |trans-title=Investigating ecofascism: how the far right wants to recover ecology |date=1 May 2022 |website=reporterre.net |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220416072858/https://reporterre.net/Enquete-sur-l-ecofascisme-comment-l-extreme-droite-veut-recuperer-l-ecologie |archive-date=16 April 2022}}</ref> [[ethno-nationalist]], and [[racist]]<ref name="Fisher & Achenbach">{{cite news |last1=Fisher |first1=Marc |author1-link=Marc Fisher |last2=Achenbach |first2=Joel |author2-link=Joel Achenbach |title=Boundless racism, zero remorse: A manifesto of hate and 49 dead in New Zealand |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/boundless-racism-zero-remorse-a-manifesto-of-hate-and-49-dead-in-new-zealand/2019/03/15/3d407c64-4738-11e9-90f0-0ccfeec87a61_story.html |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=16 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201211093607/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/boundless-racism-zero-remorse-a-manifesto-of-hate-and-49-dead-in-new-zealand/2019/03/15/3d407c64-4738-11e9-90f0-0ccfeec87a61_story.html |archive-date=11 December 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref> in his manifesto ''The Great Replacement'', named after [[The Great Replacement|a far-right conspiracy theory]]<ref name="Darby Telegraph">{{cite news |last=Darby |first=Luke |title=How the 'Great Replacement' conspiracy theory has inspired white supremacist killers |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=5 August 2019 |location=London |via=[[ProQuest]]}}</ref> originating in [[France]]. Jordan Weissmann, writing for ''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]'', describes the perpetrator's version of ecofascism as "an established, if somewhat obscure, brand of neo-Nazi"{{r|Weissmann}} and quotes Sarah Manavis of ''[[New Statesman]]'' as saying, "[Eco-fascists] believe that living in the original regions a race is meant to have originated in and shunning multiculturalism is the only way to save the planet they prioritise above all else".<ref name="Weissmann">{{cite web |first=Jordan |last=Weissmann |access-date=16 September 2019 |title=What the Christchurch Killer's Manifesto Tells Us |url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/03/what-the-christchurch-attackers-manifesto-tells-us.html |date=15 March 2019 |website=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190731142855/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/03/what-the-christchurch-attackers-manifesto-tells-us.html |archive-date=31 July 2019}}</ref> Similarly, Luke Darby clarifies it as: "eco-fascism is not the fringe hippie movement usually associated with ecoterrorism. It's a belief that the only way to deal with climate change is through eugenics and the brutal suppression of migrants."<ref name="Darby 2019"/>
Brenton Tarrant, the [[Australia|Australian]]-born perpetrator of the [[Christchurch mosque shootings]] in [[New Zealand]] described himself as an ecofascist,<ref name="Koziol, 2019">{{cite news |last1=Koziol |first1=Michael |title=Christchurch shooter's manifesto reveals |url=https://www.smh.com.au/world/oceania/christchurch-shooter-s-manifesto-reveals-an-obsession-with-white-supremacy-over-muslims-20190315-p514ko.html |date=15 March 2019 |publisher=Sydney Morning Herald |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211028102613/https://www.smh.com.au/world/oceania/christchurch-shooter-s-manifesto-reveals-an-obsession-with-white-supremacy-over-muslims-20190315-p514ko.html |archive-date=28 October 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Achenbach">{{cite news |last=Achenbach |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Achenbach |title=Two mass killings a world apart share a common theme: 'ecofascism': Environmental groups denounce racists who cloak themselves in green |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=18 August 2019 |via=[[ProQuest]]}}</ref><ref name="d’Allens, 2022">{{cite web |language=fr |first=Gaspard |last=d’Allens |url=https://reporterre.net/Enquete-sur-l-ecofascisme-comment-l-extreme-droite-veut-recuperer-l-ecologie |title=Enquête sur l’écofascisme: comment l’extrême droite veut récupérer l’écologie |trans-title=Investigating ecofascism: how the far right wants to recover ecology |date=1 May 2022 |website=reporterre.net |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220416072858/https://reporterre.net/Enquete-sur-l-ecofascisme-comment-l-extreme-droite-veut-recuperer-l-ecologie |archive-date=16 April 2022}}</ref> [[ethno-nationalist]], and [[racist]]<ref name="Fisher & Achenbach">{{cite news |last1=Fisher |first1=Marc |author1-link=Marc Fisher |last2=Achenbach |first2=Joel |author2-link=Joel Achenbach |title=Boundless racism, zero remorse: A manifesto of hate and 49 dead in New Zealand |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/boundless-racism-zero-remorse-a-manifesto-of-hate-and-49-dead-in-new-zealand/2019/03/15/3d407c64-4738-11e9-90f0-0ccfeec87a61_story.html |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=16 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201211093607/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/boundless-racism-zero-remorse-a-manifesto-of-hate-and-49-dead-in-new-zealand/2019/03/15/3d407c64-4738-11e9-90f0-0ccfeec87a61_story.html |archive-date=11 December 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>{{sfn|Ross|Bevensee|2020|p=1}} in his manifesto ''The Great Replacement'', named after [[The Great Replacement|a far-right conspiracy theory]]<ref name="Darby Telegraph">{{cite news |last=Darby |first=Luke |title=How the 'Great Replacement' conspiracy theory has inspired white supremacist killers |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=5 August 2019 |location=London |via=[[ProQuest]]}}</ref> originating in [[France]]. Jordan Weissmann, writing for ''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]'', describes the perpetrator's version of ecofascism as "an established, if somewhat obscure, brand of neo-Nazi"{{r|Weissmann}} and quotes Sarah Manavis of ''[[New Statesman]]'' as saying, "[Eco-fascists] believe that living in the original regions a race is meant to have originated in and shunning multiculturalism is the only way to save the planet they prioritise above all else".<ref name="Weissmann">{{cite web |first=Jordan |last=Weissmann |access-date=16 September 2019 |title=What the Christchurch Killer's Manifesto Tells Us |url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/03/what-the-christchurch-attackers-manifesto-tells-us.html |date=15 March 2019 |website=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190731142855/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/03/what-the-christchurch-attackers-manifesto-tells-us.html |archive-date=31 July 2019}}</ref> Similarly, Luke Darby clarifies it as: "eco-fascism is not the fringe hippie movement usually associated with ecoterrorism. It's a belief that the only way to deal with climate change is through eugenics and the brutal suppression of migrants."{{r|Darby, 2019}}


Patrick Crusius, the perpetrator of the [[2019 El Paso shooting]] wrote a similar manifesto, professing support for Tarrant.<ref name="Noack">{{cite news |last=Noack |first=Rick |title=Christchurch endures as extremist touchstone, as investigators probe suspected El Paso manifesto |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=6 August 2019 |via=[[ProQuest]]}}</ref><ref name="Reporterre 2"/> Posted to the online message board ''[[8chan]]'',<ref name="Arango">{{cite news |last1=Arango |first1=Tim |last2=Bogel-Burroughs |first2=Nicholas |last3=Benner |first3=Katie |title=Minutes Before El Paso Killing, Hate-Filled Manifesto Appears Online |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/03/us/patrick-crusius-el-paso-shooter-manifesto.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=3 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190930222513/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/03/us/patrick-crusius-el-paso-shooter-manifesto.html |archive-date=30 September 2019}}</ref> it blames [[immigration to the United States]] for environmental destruction,<ref name="Owen">{{cite news |last=Owen |first=Tess |title=Eco-Fascism: the Racist Theory That Inspired the El Paso and Christchurch Shooters |url=https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59nmv5/eco-fascism-the-racist-theory-that-inspired-the-el-paso-and-christchurch-shooters-and-is-gaining-followers |work=[[Vice News]] |date=6 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120141857/https://www.vice.com/en/article/59nmv5/eco-fascism-the-racist-theory-that-inspired-the-el-paso-and-christchurch-shooters-and-is-gaining-followers |archive-date=20 January 2021}}</ref> saying that American lifestyles were "destroying the environment",<ref name="Lennard">{{cite web |last=Lennard |first=Natasha |title=The El Paso Shooter Embraced Eco-Fascism. We Can't Let the Far Right Co-Opt the Environmental Struggle. |url=https://theintercept.com/2019/08/05/el-paso-shooting-eco-fascism-migration/ |website=[[The Intercept]] |date=5 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191129042203/https://theintercept.com/2019/08/05/el-paso-shooting-eco-fascism-migration/ |archive-date=29 November 2019}}</ref> invoking an ecological burden to be borne by future generations,{{r|Achenbach}}<ref name="Darby 2019" /> and concluding that the solution was to "decrease the number of people in America using resources".{{r|Lennard}}
Patrick Crusius, the perpetrator of the [[2019 El Paso shooting]] wrote a similar manifesto, professing support for Tarrant.<ref name="Noack">{{cite news |last=Noack |first=Rick |title=Christchurch endures as extremist touchstone, as investigators probe suspected El Paso manifesto |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=6 August 2019 |via=[[ProQuest]]}}</ref>{{r|d’Allens, 2022}}{{r|Forchtner & Lubarda}} Posted to the online message board ''[[8chan]]'',<ref name="Arango">{{cite news |last1=Arango |first1=Tim |last2=Bogel-Burroughs |first2=Nicholas |last3=Benner |first3=Katie |title=Minutes Before El Paso Killing, Hate-Filled Manifesto Appears Online |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/03/us/patrick-crusius-el-paso-shooter-manifesto.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=3 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190930222513/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/03/us/patrick-crusius-el-paso-shooter-manifesto.html |archive-date=30 September 2019}}</ref> it blames [[immigration to the United States]] for environmental destruction,<ref name="Owen">{{cite news |last=Owen |first=Tess |title=Eco-Fascism: the Racist Theory That Inspired the El Paso and Christchurch Shooters |url=https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59nmv5/eco-fascism-the-racist-theory-that-inspired-the-el-paso-and-christchurch-shooters-and-is-gaining-followers |work=[[Vice News]] |date=6 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120141857/https://www.vice.com/en/article/59nmv5/eco-fascism-the-racist-theory-that-inspired-the-el-paso-and-christchurch-shooters-and-is-gaining-followers |archive-date=20 January 2021}}</ref> saying that American lifestyles were "destroying the environment",<ref name="Lennard">{{cite web |last=Lennard |first=Natasha |title=The El Paso Shooter Embraced Eco-Fascism. We Can't Let the Far Right Co-Opt the Environmental Struggle. |url=https://theintercept.com/2019/08/05/el-paso-shooting-eco-fascism-migration/ |website=[[The Intercept]] |date=5 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191129042203/https://theintercept.com/2019/08/05/el-paso-shooting-eco-fascism-migration/ |archive-date=29 November 2019}}</ref> invoking an ecological burden to be borne by future generations,{{r|Achenbach}}{{r|Darby, 2019}} and concluding that the solution was to "decrease the number of people in America using resources".{{r|Lennard}} Crusius and Tarrant also inspired Philip Manshaus who [[Bærum mosque shooting|attacked a mosque in Norway]] in 2019.{{sfn|Ross|Bevensee|2020|p=3}}<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/11/norway-mosque-attack-suspect-may-have-been-inspired-by-christchurch-and-el-paso-shootings |title=Norway mosque attack suspect 'inspired by Christchurch and El Paso shootings' |last=Burke |first=Jason |date=11 August 2019 |work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=11 August 2019 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>


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The Swedish self-identified ecofascist Green Brigade is an eco-terrorist group linked to [[The Base (hate group)|The Base]] that is responsible for multiple mass murder plots. The Green Brigade has been responsible for arson attacks against targets deemed to be enemies of nature, like an attack on a mink farm that caused multi-million-dollar damages. Two members were arrested by Swedish police, allegedly planning assassinating judges and bombings.<ref>{{cite news |last=Lamoureux |first=Mack |date=25 December 2020 |title=Neo-Nazis Are Using Eco-Fascism to Recruit Young People |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxqmey/neo-nazis-eco-fascism-climate-change-recruit-young-people |work=[[Vice News]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101054145/https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxqmey/neo-nazis-eco-fascism-climate-change-recruit-young-people |archive-date=1 November 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Lamoureux |first=Mack |date=25 December 2020 |title=Alleged Eco-Terrorists Discussed Abortion Clinic Bombing, Assassinating Judge: Court Documents |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5bjqm/alleged-eco-terrorists-discussed-abortion-clinic-bombing-assassinating-judge-court-documents |work=[[Vice News]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210108013656/https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5bjqm/alleged-eco-terrorists-discussed-abortion-clinic-bombing-assassinating-judge-court-documents |archive-date=8 January 2021}}</ref>
The Swedish self-identified ecofascist Green Brigade is an eco-terrorist group linked to [[The Base (hate group)|The Base]] that is responsible for multiple mass murder plots. The Green Brigade has been responsible for arson attacks against targets deemed to be enemies of nature,{{r|Kamel, Lamoureux, Makuch}} like an attack on a mink farm that caused multi-million-dollar damages. Two members were arrested by Swedish police, allegedly planning assassinating judges and bombings.<ref>{{cite news |last=Lamoureux |first=Mack |date=25 December 2020 |title=Neo-Nazis Are Using Eco-Fascism to Recruit Young People |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxqmey/neo-nazis-eco-fascism-climate-change-recruit-young-people |work=[[Vice News]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101054145/https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxqmey/neo-nazis-eco-fascism-climate-change-recruit-young-people |archive-date=1 November 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Lamoureux |first=Mack |date=25 December 2020 |title=Alleged Eco-Terrorists Discussed Abortion Clinic Bombing, Assassinating Judge: Court Documents |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5bjqm/alleged-eco-terrorists-discussed-abortion-clinic-bombing-assassinating-judge-court-documents |work=[[Vice News]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210108013656/https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5bjqm/alleged-eco-terrorists-discussed-abortion-clinic-bombing-assassinating-judge-court-documents |archive-date=8 January 2021}}</ref>


In December 2020, the [[Swedish Defence Research Agency]] released a report on ecofascism. The paper argued that ecofascism is intimately tied to the ideology of [[accelerationism]], and ecofascists nearly exclusively choose terror tactics over the political approach. Further, the SDRA argues not all ecofascist mass shooters have been recognized as such: [[Pekka-Eric Auvinen]] who shot eight people in Finland before killing himself adhered to the ideology according to his manifesto titled "The Natural Selector's Manifesto". He advocated "total war against humanity" due to the threat humanity posed to other species. He wrote that death and killing is not a tragedy, as it constantly happens in nature between all species. Auvinen also wrote that the modern society hinders "natural justice" and that all inferior "subhumans" should be killed and only the elite of humanity be spared. In one of his YouTube videos Auvinen paid tribute to the prominent ecofascist Pentti Linkola.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.foi.se/rapportsammanfattning?reportNo=FOI%20Memo%207441 |title=Ekofascism. En studie av propaganda i digitala miljöer |language=sv |trans-title=Ecofascism. A study of propaganda in digital environments |last1=Kaati |first1=Lisa |last2=Cohen |first2=Katie |last3=Sarnecki |first3=Hannah |last4=Fernquist |first4=Johan |last5=Pelzer |first5=Björn |access-date=26 December 2020 |publisher=[[Swedish Defence Research Agency]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210131194456/https://www.foi.se/rapportsammanfattning?reportNo=FOI%20Memo%207441 |archive-date=31 January 2021}}</ref>
In December 2020, the [[Swedish Defence Research Agency]] released a report on ecofascism. The paper argued that ecofascism is intimately tied to the ideology of [[accelerationism]], and ecofascists nearly exclusively choose terror tactics over the political approach. Further, the SDRA argues not all ecofascist mass shooters have been recognized as such: [[Pekka-Eric Auvinen]] who shot eight people in Finland before killing himself adhered to the ideology according to his manifesto titled "The Natural Selector's Manifesto". He advocated "total war against humanity" due to the threat humanity posed to other species. He wrote that death and killing is not a tragedy, as it constantly happens in nature between all species. Auvinen also wrote that the modern society hinders "natural justice" and that all inferior "subhumans" should be killed and only the elite of humanity be spared. In one of his YouTube videos Auvinen paid tribute to the prominent ecofascist Pentti Linkola.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.foi.se/rapportsammanfattning?reportNo=FOI%20Memo%207441 |title=Ekofascism. En studie av propaganda i digitala miljöer |language=sv |trans-title=Ecofascism. A study of propaganda in digital environments |last1=Kaati |first1=Lisa |last2=Cohen |first2=Katie |last3=Sarnecki |first3=Hannah |last4=Fernquist |first4=Johan |last5=Pelzer |first5=Björn |access-date=26 December 2020 |publisher=[[Swedish Defence Research Agency]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210131194456/https://www.foi.se/rapportsammanfattning?reportNo=FOI%20Memo%207441 |archive-date=31 January 2021}}</ref>


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Payton S. Gendron, the instigator of the [[2022 Buffalo shooting]], also wrote a manifesto self-describing as "an ethno-nationalist eco-fascist national socialist" within it and also professing support for far-right shooters from Tarrant and [[Dylann Roof]] to [[Anders Behring Breivik]] and [[Pittsburgh synagogue shooting#Suspect|Robert Bowers]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Michael |last=Starr |url=https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-706727 |title='I wish all Jews to hell' -Buffalo shooter was fascist white supremacist |work=[[The Jerusalem Post]] |date=15 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220703202119/https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-706727 |archive-date=3 July 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first1=Carolyn |last1=Thompson |first2=Dave |last2=Collins |url=https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/at-least-eight-dead-in-daylight-mass-shooting-at-us-supermarket-20220515-p5alee.html |title=Racially motivated shooter pointed to Christchurch attacks in 'manifesto' |work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |date=15 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220601050202/https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/at-least-eight-dead-in-daylight-mass-shooting-at-us-supermarket-20220515-p5alee.html |archive-date=1 June 2022}}</ref>
Payton S. Gendron, the instigator of the [[2022 Buffalo shooting]], also wrote a manifesto self-describing as "an ethno-nationalist eco-fascist national socialist" within it and also professing support for far-right shooters from Tarrant and [[Dylann Roof]] to [[Anders Behring Breivik]] and [[Pittsburgh synagogue shooting#Suspect|Robert Bowers]].<ref name="Starr, 2022">{{cite news |first=Michael |last=Starr |url=https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-706727 |title='I wish all Jews to hell' -Buffalo shooter was fascist white supremacist |work=[[The Jerusalem Post]] |date=15 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220703202119/https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-706727 |archive-date=3 July 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first1=Carolyn |last1=Thompson |first2=Dave |last2=Collins |url=https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/at-least-eight-dead-in-daylight-mass-shooting-at-us-supermarket-20220515-p5alee.html |title=Racially motivated shooter pointed to Christchurch attacks in 'manifesto' |work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |date=15 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220601050202/https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/at-least-eight-dead-in-daylight-mass-shooting-at-us-supermarket-20220515-p5alee.html |archive-date=1 June 2022}}</ref>


== Critiques ==
== Critiques ==
According to deep ecologic activist and "[[left-wing politics|left]] [[biocentrism (ethics)|biocentrism]]" advocate [[David Orton (deep ecology)|David Orton]] in 2000, the term is [[pejorative]] in nature and it has "social ecology roots, against the [[deep ecology]] movement and its supporters plus, more generally, the environmental movement. Thus, 'ecofascist' and 'ecofascism', are used not to enlighten but to smear." Orton, in 2000, argued that "it is a strange term/concept to really have any conceptual validity" as there has not "yet been a country that has had an "eco-fascist" government or, to my knowledge, a political organization which has declared itself publicly as organized on an ecofascist basis."<ref name=Orton>{{cite web |last=Orton |first=David |author-link=David Orton (deep ecology) |url=http://home.ca.inter.net/~greenweb/Ecofascism.html |title=Ecofascism: What is It? A Left Biocentric Analysis |publisher=home.ca.inter.net |date=February 2000 |access-date=29 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021205231902/http://home.ca.inter.net/~greenweb/Ecofascism.html |archive-date=5 December 2002}}</ref>
The deep ecologic activist and "[[left-wing politics|left]] [[biocentrism (ethics)|biocentrism]]" advocate [[David Orton (deep ecology)|David Orton]] stated in 2000 that the term is [[pejorative]] in nature and it has "social ecology roots, against the [[deep ecology]] movement and its supporters plus, more generally, the environmental movement. Thus, 'ecofascist' and 'ecofascism', are used not to enlighten but to smear." Orton argued that "it is a strange term/concept to really have any conceptual validity" as there has not "yet been a country that has had an "eco-fascist" government or, to my knowledge, a political organization which has declared itself publicly as organized on an ecofascist basis."<ref name="Orton">{{cite web |last=Orton |first=David |author-link=David Orton (deep ecology) |url=http://home.ca.inter.net/~greenweb/Ecofascism.html |title=Ecofascism: What is It? A Left Biocentric Analysis |publisher=home.ca.inter.net |date=February 2000 |access-date=29 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021205231902/http://home.ca.inter.net/~greenweb/Ecofascism.html |archive-date=5 December 2002}}</ref>{{refn|group=lower-alpha|Since 2000, multiple individuals and groups have self described as ecofascists, including:
* [[Christchurch mosque shootings|Brenton Tarrant]]{{r|Koziol, 2019}}
* [[2019 El Paso shooting|Patrick Crusius]]{{r|Lennard}}
* Green Brigade{{r|Kamel, Lamoureux, Makuch}}
* [[2022 Buffalo shooting|Payton S. Gendron]]{{r|Starr, 2022}}
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Accusations of ecofascism have often been made but are usually strenuously denied.<ref name="Orton" /><ref name="smh" /> Left wing critiques view ecofascism as an assault on [[human rights]], as in [[Social ecology (theory)|social ecologist]] [[Murray Bookchin]]'s use of the term.<ref name="Bookchin, 1987">{{cite magazine |last=Bookchin |first=Murray |author-link=Murray Bookchin |url=http://libcom.org/library/social-versus-deep-ecology-bookchin/ |title=Social Ecology Versus Deep Ecology: A Challenge for the Ecology Movement |magazine=Green Perspectives: Newsletter of the Green Program Project |number=4–5 |date=Summer 1987 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220524132320/https://libcom.org/article/social-ecology-versus-deep-ecology-challenge-ecology-movement |archive-date=24 May 2022}}</ref>
Accusations of ecofascism have often been made but are usually strenuously denied.{{r|Orton}}{{r|Staudenmaier 2003}} Left wing critiques view ecofascism as an assault on [[human rights]], as in [[Social ecology (theory)|social ecologist]] [[Murray Bookchin]]'s use of the term.<ref name="Bookchin, 1987">{{cite magazine |last=Bookchin |first=Murray |author-link=Murray Bookchin |url=http://libcom.org/library/social-versus-deep-ecology-bookchin/ |title=Social Ecology Versus Deep Ecology: A Challenge for the Ecology Movement |magazine=Green Perspectives: Newsletter of the Green Program Project |number=4–5 |date=Summer 1987 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220524132320/https://libcom.org/article/social-ecology-versus-deep-ecology-challenge-ecology-movement |archive-date=24 May 2022}}</ref>


=== Deep ecology ===
=== Deep ecology ===
{{main|Deep ecology}}
{{main|Deep ecology}}
Deep ecology is an environmental philosophy that promotes the inherent worth of all living beings regardless of their instrumental utility to human needs. It has long been linked fascist ideologies, both by critics and fascist proponents.<ref name="An Enduring Temptation"/> In certain texts, the Norwegian philosopher [[Arne Næss]], a leading voice of the "Deep ecology" movement, opposes environmentalism and humanism, even proclaiming, in imitation of a famous phrase of the [[Marquis de Sade]], {{lang|fr|"Écologistes, encore un effort pour devenir anti-humanistes"}} ("Ecologists, another effort to become anti-humanists!").<ref name="Arne Næss">{{cite book |first=Arne |last=Næss |author-link=Arne Næss |translator-first=David |translator-last=Rothenberg |title=Ecology, Community and Lifestyle |date=1989 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |isbn=9780511525599 |doi=10.1017/CBO9780511525599}}</ref> [[Luc Ferry]], in his anti-environmentalist book {{ill|Le Nouvel Ordre écologique|fr}} published in 1992, particularly incriminated deep ecology as being an anti-humanist ideology bordering on Nazism.<ref name="Flipo">{{cite book |first=Fabrice |last=Flipo |title=Nature et politique. Contribution à une anthropologie de la modernité et de la globalisation |language=fr |trans-title=Nature and politics. Contribution to an anthropology of modernity and globalization |location=Amsterdam |date=2014 |isbn=}}</ref>
Deep ecology is an environmental philosophy that promotes the inherent worth of all living beings regardless of their instrumental utility to human needs. It has long been linked fascist ideologies, both by critics and fascist proponents.{{r|Zimmerman, 2004}} In certain texts, the Norwegian philosopher [[Arne Næss]], a leading voice of the "Deep ecology" movement, opposes environmentalism and humanism, even proclaiming, in imitation of a famous phrase of the [[Marquis de Sade]], {{lang|fr|"Écologistes, encore un effort pour devenir anti-humanistes"}} ("Ecologists, another effort to become anti-humanists!").<ref name="Arne Næss">{{cite book |first=Arne |last=Næss |author-link=Arne Næss |translator-first=David |translator-last=Rothenberg |title=Ecology, Community and Lifestyle |date=1989 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |isbn=9780511525599 |doi=10.1017/CBO9780511525599}}</ref> [[Luc Ferry]], in his anti-environmentalist book {{ill|Le Nouvel Ordre écologique|fr}} published in 1992, particularly incriminated deep ecology as being an anti-humanist ideology bordering on Nazism.<ref name="Flipo">{{cite book |first=Fabrice |last=Flipo |title=Nature et politique. Contribution à une anthropologie de la modernité et de la globalisation |language=fr |trans-title=Nature and politics. Contribution to an anthropology of modernity and globalization |location=Amsterdam |date=2014 |isbn=}}</ref>{{sfn|Taylor|Zimmermann|2008|p=458}}


=== Bookchin's critique of deep ecology ===
=== Bookchin's critique of deep ecology ===
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<blockquote>There are barely disguised racists, survivalists, macho [[Daniel Boone]]s, and outright social reactionaries who use the word ecology to express their views, just as there are deeply concerned naturalists, communitarians, social radicals, and feminists who use the word ecology to express theirs... It was out of this former kind of crude eco-brutalism that Hitler, in the name of "population control," with a racial orientation, fashioned theories of blood and soil...
<blockquote>There are barely disguised racists, survivalists, macho [[Daniel Boone]]s, and outright social reactionaries who use the word ecology to express their views, just as there are deeply concerned naturalists, communitarians, social radicals, and feminists who use the word ecology to express theirs... It was out of this former kind of crude eco-brutalism that Hitler, in the name of "population control," with a racial orientation, fashioned theories of blood and soil...


The same eco-brutalism now reappears a half-century later among self-professed deep ecologists who believe that [[Third World]] peoples should be permitted to starve to death and that desperate Indian immigrants from Latin America should be excluded by the border cops from the United States lest they burden "our" ecological resources.<ref name="Bookchin, 1987"/></blockquote>
The same eco-brutalism now reappears a half-century later among self-professed deep ecologists who believe that [[Third World]] peoples should be permitted to starve to death and that desperate Indian immigrants from Latin America should be excluded by the border cops from the United States lest they burden "our" ecological resources.{{r|Bookchin, 1987}}</blockquote>


=== Sakai on "natural purity" ===
=== Sakai on "natural purity" ===
Such observations among the left are not exclusive to Bookchin. In his review of Anna Bramwell's biography of [[Richard Walther Darré]], political writer J. Sakai and author of ''[[Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat]]'', observes the fascist ideological undertones of natural purity.<ref name="Sakai">{{cite book |title=The Green Nazi - an investigation into fascist ecology |last=Sakai |first=J. |year=2003 |publisher=Kerspledebeb |isbn=978-0-9689503-9-5}}</ref> Prior to the [[Russian Revolution]], the [[tsarist]] [[intelligentsia]] was divided on the one hand between [[Social Liberalism|liberal]] "[[Utilitarianism|utilitarian]] naturalists", who were "taken with the idea of creating a paradise on earth through scientific mastery of nature" and influenced by [[nihilist movement|nihilism]] as well as Russian [[zoologists]] such as [[Anatoli Petrovich Bogdanov]]; and, on the other, "cultural-[[aesthetic]]" conservationists such as Ivan Parfenevich Borodin, who were influenced in turn by [[German Romanticism|German Romantic]] and [[German idealism|idealist]] concepts such as {{lang|de|Landschaftspflege}} and {{lang|de|Naturdenkmal}}.<ref name="Weiner">{{cite book |title=Models Of Nature: Ecology, Conservation, and Cultural Revolution in Soviet Russia |last=Weiner |first=Douglas R. |year=2000 |publisher=[[University of Pittsburgh Press]] |isbn=978-0-8229-5733-1}}</ref>
Such observations among the left are not exclusive to Bookchin. In his review of Anna Bramwell's biography of [[Richard Walther Darré]], political writer J. Sakai and author of ''[[Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat]]'', observes the fascist ideological undertones of natural purity.<ref name="Sakai">{{cite book |title=The Green Nazi - an investigation into fascist ecology |last=Sakai |first=J. |year=2003 |publisher=Kerspledebeb |isbn=978-0-9689503-9-5}}</ref> Prior to the [[Russian Revolution]], the [[tsarist]] [[intelligentsia]] was divided on the one hand between [[Social Liberalism|liberal]] "[[Utilitarianism|utilitarian]] naturalists", who were "taken with the idea of creating a paradise on earth through scientific mastery of nature" and influenced by [[nihilist movement|nihilism]] as well as Russian [[zoologists]] such as [[Anatoli Petrovich Bogdanov]]; and, on the other, "cultural-[[aesthetic]]" conservationists such as Ivan Parfenevich Borodin, who were influenced in turn by [[German Romanticism|German Romantic]] and [[German idealism|idealist]] concepts such as {{lang|de|Landschaftspflege}} and {{lang|de|Naturdenkmal}}.<ref name="Weiner">{{cite book |title=Models Of Nature: Ecology, Conservation, and Cultural Revolution in Soviet Russia |last=Weiner |first=Douglas R. |year=2000 |publisher=[[University of Pittsburgh Press]] |isbn=978-0-8229-5733-1}}</ref>


== Far-Right Green Movements ==
=== Narrowness of label ===
Political scientist Balša Lubarda has criticised the use of the term "ecofascism" as not sufficiently covering and describing the wider network of ideologies and systems that feed into ecofascist action, suggesting the term "far-right ecologism" (FRE) instead.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Lubarda |first=Balša |title=Beyond Ecofascism? Far-Right Ecologism (FRE) as a Framework for Future Inquiries |journal=[[Environmental Values]] |volume=29 |number=6 |date=December 2020 |pages=713–732 |publisher={{ill|White Horse Press|de}} |doi=10.3197/096327120X15752810323922}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first1=Joshua |last1=Farrell-Molloy |first2=Graham |last2=Macklin |title=Ted Kaczynski, Anti-Technology Radicalism and Eco-Fascism |date=15 June 2022 |url=https://www.icct.nl/publication/ted-kaczynski-anti-technology-radicalism-and-eco-fascism/ |website=icct.nl |publisher=[[International Centre for Counter-Terrorism]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220616081838/https://www.icct.nl/publication/ted-kaczynski-anti-technology-radicalism-and-eco-fascism/ |archive-date=16 June 2022}}</ref> Lubarda is supported by researcher Bernhard Forchtner who emphasises ecofascism's existence as a fringe ideology that has had little impact on the wider far-right's interaction with environmentalism.{{r|Forchtner & Lubarda}}<ref>{{cite book |first1=Sam |last1=Moore |first2=Alex |last2=Roberts |title=The Rise of Ecofascism: Climate Change and the Far Right |date=2022 |publisher=Polity Press |isbn=978-1-5095-4537-7 |chapter=Introduction |pages=8–9, 12–13}}</ref>

== Far-right green movements ==
=== Austria ===
=== Austria ===
{{ill|The Greens of Austria|de|Die Grünen Österreichs|display=1}} (DGÖ) had been founded in 1982 by the former [[National Democratic Party (Austria, 1967–88)|NDP]] official Alfred Bayer to use the popularity of the green movement at the time for the purposes of the NDP. The party managed to win a number of municipal seats in the mid-1980s but in 1988 the [[Constitutional Court (Austria)|Constitutional Court]] banned the party on grounds of Neo-Nazism alongside a parallel ban on the NDP.<ref>{{cite thesis |url=https://unipub.uni-graz.at/obvugrhs/download/pdf/333623?originalFilename=true |title=Braune Flecken der Grünen Bewegung: Eine Untersuchung zu den völkisch-antimodernistischen Traditionslinien der Ökologiebewegung und zum Einfluss der extremen Rechten auf die Herausbildung grüner Parteien in Österreich und in der BRD |language=de |trans-title=Brown spots of the Green Movement: An investigation into the völkisch-antimodernist traditions of the ecology movement and the influence of the extreme right on the development of green parties in Austria and the Federal Republic of Germany |type=Master's |first=David |last=Kriebernegg |publisher=[[University of Graz]] |date=2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210802114835/https://unipub.uni-graz.at/obvugrhs/download/pdf/333623?originalFilename=true |archive-date=2 August 2021}}</ref>
{{ill|The Greens of Austria|de|Die Grünen Österreichs|display=1}} (DGÖ) had been founded in 1982 by the former [[National Democratic Party (Austria, 1967–88)|NDP]] official Alfred Bayer to use the popularity of the green movement at the time for the purposes of the NDP. The party managed to win a number of municipal seats in the mid-1980s but in 1988 the [[Constitutional Court (Austria)|Constitutional Court]] banned the party on grounds of Neo-Nazism alongside a parallel ban on the NDP.<ref>{{cite thesis |url=https://unipub.uni-graz.at/obvugrhs/download/pdf/333623?originalFilename=true |title=Braune Flecken der Grünen Bewegung: Eine Untersuchung zu den völkisch-antimodernistischen Traditionslinien der Ökologiebewegung und zum Einfluss der extremen Rechten auf die Herausbildung grüner Parteien in Österreich und in der BRD |language=de |trans-title=Brown spots of the Green Movement: An investigation into the völkisch-antimodernist traditions of the ecology movement and the influence of the extreme right on the development of green parties in Austria and the Federal Republic of Germany |type=Master's |first=David |last=Kriebernegg |publisher=[[University of Graz]] |date=2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210802114835/https://unipub.uni-graz.at/obvugrhs/download/pdf/333623?originalFilename=true |archive-date=2 August 2021}}</ref>
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=== France ===
=== France ===
==== Nouvelle Droite movement ====
==== Nouvelle Droite movement ====
The European {{lang|fr|[[Nouvelle Droite]]}} movement, developed by [[Alain de Benoist]] and other individuals involved with the [[Groupement de recherche et d'études pour la civilisation européenne|GRECE]] think tank, have also combined green politics with right-wing ideas such as European [[ethnonationalism]].<ref name="Griffin, 2008"/><ref name="Reporterre 2"/> Various other far-right figures have taken the lead from de Benoist, providing an [[appeal to nature]] in their politics, including: [[Guillaume Faye]], [[Renaud Camus]], and [[Hervé Juvin]].<ref name="Reporterre 2"/>
The European {{lang|fr|[[Nouvelle Droite]]}} movement, developed by [[Alain de Benoist]] and other individuals involved with the [[Groupement de recherche et d'études pour la civilisation européenne|GRECE]] think tank, have also combined various left-wing ideas, including green politics, with right-wing ideas such as European [[ethnonationalism]].{{r|Griffin, 2008}}{{r|d’Allens, 2022}}<ref>{{cite journal |last=Griffin |first=Roger |year=2000 |title=Between Metapolitics and ''Apoliteia'': the Nouvelle Droite's Strategy for Conserving the Fascist Vision in the 'Interregnum' |journal=Modern & Contemporary France |volume=8 |number=1 |pages=35–53 |doi=10.1080/096394800113349 |s2cid=143890750 |author-link=Roger Griffin}}</ref> Various other far-right figures have taken the lead from de Benoist, providing an [[appeal to nature]] in their politics, including: [[Guillaume Faye]], [[Renaud Camus]], and [[Hervé Juvin]].{{r|d’Allens, 2022}}


==== Génération identitaire ====
==== Génération identitaire ====
In 2020, following articles from self-described ecofascist {{ill|Piero San Giorgio|fr}}, a spokesperson for {{lang|fr|[[Les Identitaires#Youth wing|Génération identitaire]]}}, Clément Martin, advocated for {{lang|fr|zones identitaires à défendre}}, ethnically homogenous zones to be violently defended in order to protect the environment.<ref name="Reporterre 2"/>
In 2020, following articles from self-described ecofascist {{ill|Piero San Giorgio|fr}}, a spokesperson for {{lang|fr|[[Les Identitaires#Youth wing|Génération identitaire]]}}, Clément Martin, advocated for {{lang|fr|zones identitaires à défendre}}, ethnically homogenous zones to be violently defended in order to protect the environment.{{r|d’Allens, 2022}}


=== Germany ===
=== Germany ===
==== The NPD ====
==== The NPD ====
[[File:2017-01-21_-_Frank_Franz_-_0935.jpg|110px|thumb|Frank Franz, the current leader of the NPD, in 2017.]]
The [[National Democratic Party of Germany]] (NPD), a German Nationalist Far right party, has recently supported the [[green movement]]. This is one of many strategies the party has used to try to gain supporters.<ref name="Connolly, 2012">{{Cite news |date=28 April 2012 |first=Kate |last=Connolly |title=German far-right extremists tap into green movement for support |url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/apr/28/germany-far-right-green-movement |access-date=2 December 2021 |website=[[The Guardian]] |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308222728/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/apr/28/germany-far-right-green-movement |archive-date=8 March 2016}}</ref>
The [[National Democratic Party of Germany]] (NPD), a German Nationalist Far right party, has recently supported the [[green movement]]. This is one of many strategies the party has used to try to gain supporters.<ref name="Connolly, 2012">{{Cite news |date=28 April 2012 |first=Kate |last=Connolly |title=German far-right extremists tap into green movement for support |url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/apr/28/germany-far-right-green-movement |access-date=2 December 2021 |website=[[The Guardian]] |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308222728/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/apr/28/germany-far-right-green-movement |archive-date=8 March 2016}}</ref>


The German far-right has published the magazine {{lang|de|{{ill|Umwelt & Aktiv|de}}}}, that masquerades as a garden and nature publication but intertwines garden tips with extremist political ideology.<ref name="stoerungsmelder">{{cite web |first=Claudia |last=Naujoks |url=http://blog.zeit.de/stoerungsmelder/2008/08/29/grun-oder-braun-zum-nationalistischen-okomagazin-%E2%80%9Eumwelt-und-aktiv%E2%80%9C_387 |title=Grün oder braun? Zum nationalistischen Ökomagazin "Umwelt und Aktiv" |language=de |trans-title=Green or brown? To the nationalist eco-magazine "Umwelt und Aktiv" |website={{ill|Störungsmelder|de|Störungsmelder (Weblog)}} |date=29 August 2008 |access-date=3 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220928042333/https://blog.zeit.de/stoerungsmelder/2008/08/29/grun-oder-braun-zum-nationalistischen-okomagazin-%e2%80%9eumwelt-und-aktiv%e2%80%9c_387 |archive-date=28 September 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dradio.de/dkultur/sendungen/thema/1649624/ |title=Naturschutz in Braun. Wie Rechtsextreme in der Ökoszene mitmischen |language=de |trans-title=Nature conservation in brown. How right-wing extremists get involved in the eco-scene |first1=Toralf |last1=Staud |author1-link=:de:Toralf Staud |first2=Katrin |last2=Heise |website=[[Deutschlandfunk Kultur|Deutschlandradio Kultur]] |date=11 January 2012 |access-date=21 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171213082558/http://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/naturschutz-in-braun.954.de.html?dram:article_id=146907 |archive-date=13 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Dana |last=Fuchs |url=http://www.netz-gegen-nazis.de/artikel/die-gruenen-braunen-rechtsextremismus-im-umweltschutz0867 |title=Die grünen Braunen – Rechtsextremismus im Umweltschutz |language=de |trans-title=The green browns - right-wing extremism in environmental protection |website={{ill|Belltower.News|de}} |date=26 July 2010 |access-date=3 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001084046/https://www.belltower.news/die-gruenen-braunen-rechtsextremismus-im-umweltschutz-32582/ |archive-date=1 October 2020}}</ref> This is known as a “camouflage publication” in which the NPD has spread its mission and ideologies through a discrete source and made its way into homes they otherwise wouldn’t. Right-wing environmentalists are settling in the northern regions of rural Germany and are forming nationalistic and authoritarian communities which produce honey, fresh produce, baked goods, and other such farm goods for profit. Their ideology is centered around “blood and soil” [[ruralism]] in which they humanely raise produce and animals for profit and sustenance. Through their support of this operation, and the backing of many others, it’s reported that the NPD is trying to wrestle the [[green movement]], which has been dominated by the left since the 1980s, back from the left through these avenues.
The German far-right has published the magazine {{lang|de|{{ill|Umwelt & Aktiv|de}}}}, that masquerades as a garden and nature publication but intertwines garden tips with extremist political ideology.<ref name="stoerungsmelder">{{cite web |first=Claudia |last=Naujoks |url=http://blog.zeit.de/stoerungsmelder/2008/08/29/grun-oder-braun-zum-nationalistischen-okomagazin-%E2%80%9Eumwelt-und-aktiv%E2%80%9C_387 |title=Grün oder braun? Zum nationalistischen Ökomagazin "Umwelt und Aktiv" |language=de |trans-title=Green or brown? To the nationalist eco-magazine "Umwelt und Aktiv" |website={{ill|Störungsmelder|de|Störungsmelder (Weblog)}} |date=29 August 2008 |access-date=3 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220928042333/https://blog.zeit.de/stoerungsmelder/2008/08/29/grun-oder-braun-zum-nationalistischen-okomagazin-%e2%80%9eumwelt-und-aktiv%e2%80%9c_387 |archive-date=28 September 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dradio.de/dkultur/sendungen/thema/1649624/ |title=Naturschutz in Braun. Wie Rechtsextreme in der Ökoszene mitmischen |language=de |trans-title=Nature conservation in brown. How right-wing extremists get involved in the eco-scene |first1=Toralf |last1=Staud |author1-link=:de:Toralf Staud |first2=Katrin |last2=Heise |website=[[Deutschlandfunk Kultur|Deutschlandradio Kultur]] |date=11 January 2012 |access-date=21 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171213082558/http://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/naturschutz-in-braun.954.de.html?dram:article_id=146907 |archive-date=13 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Dana |last=Fuchs |url=http://www.netz-gegen-nazis.de/artikel/die-gruenen-braunen-rechtsextremismus-im-umweltschutz0867 |title=Die grünen Braunen – Rechtsextremismus im Umweltschutz |language=de |trans-title=The green browns - right-wing extremism in environmental protection |website={{ill|Belltower.News|de}} |date=26 July 2010 |access-date=3 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001084046/https://www.belltower.news/die-gruenen-braunen-rechtsextremismus-im-umweltschutz-32582/ |archive-date=1 October 2020}}</ref> This is known as a “camouflage publication” in which the NPD has spread its mission and ideologies through a discrete source and made its way into homes they otherwise wouldn’t. Right-wing environmentalists are settling in the northern regions of rural Germany and are forming nationalistic and authoritarian communities which produce honey, fresh produce, baked goods, and other such farm goods for profit. Their ideology is centered around “blood and soil” [[ruralism]] in which they humanely raise produce and animals for profit and sustenance. Through their support of this operation, and the backing of many others, it’s reported that the NPD is trying to wrestle the [[green movement]], which has been dominated by the left since the 1980s, back from the left through these avenues.


It’s difficult to know if when one is buying local produce or farm fresh eggs from a farmer at their stand, they’re supporting a right-wing agenda. Various efforts are being made to halt or slow the infiltration of right-wing ecologists into the community of organic farmers such as brochures about their communities and common practices. However, as the organic cultivation organization, Biopark, demonstrates with their vetting process, it’s difficult to keep people out of communities because of their ideologies. Biopark specifies that they vet based on cultivation habits, not opinions or doctrines, especially when they’re not explicitly stated.<ref name="Connolly, 2012"/>
It’s difficult to know if when one is buying local produce or farm fresh eggs from a farmer at their stand, they’re supporting a right-wing agenda. Various efforts are being made to halt or slow the infiltration of right-wing ecologists into the community of organic farmers such as brochures about their communities and common practices. However, as the organic cultivation organization, Biopark, demonstrates with their vetting process, it’s difficult to keep people out of communities because of their ideologies. Biopark specifies that they vet based on cultivation habits, not opinions or doctrines, especially when they’re not explicitly stated.{{r|Connolly, 2012}}


==== Collegium Humanum ====
==== Collegium Humanum ====
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Following the fall of Communism in Hungary at the end of the 1980s, one of the new political parties that emerged in the country was the [[Green Party of Hungary]]. Initially having a moderate centre-right green outlook, after 1993 the party adopted a radical anti-liberal, anti-communist, anti-Semitic and pro-fascist stance, paired with the creation of a paramilitary wing.<ref>{{cite book |last=Vida |first=István |title=Magyarországi politikai pártok lexikona (1846–2010) |trans-title=Encyclopedia of the Political Parties in Hungary (1846–2010) |publisher=Gondolat Kiadó |year=2011 |pages=430–432 |chapter=Magyarországi Zöld Párt (MZP) |isbn=978-963-693-276-3 |language=hu}}</ref> This ideological swing resulted in many members breaking off from the party to form new green parties, first with [[Green Alternative (Hungary)|Green Alternative]] in 1993 and secondly with [[Hungarian Social Green Party]] in 1995. Each green party remained on the political fringe of Hungarian politics and petered out over time. It was not until the formation of [[LMP – Hungary's Green Party]] in the 2010s that green politics in Hungary consolidated around a single green party.
Following the fall of Communism in Hungary at the end of the 1980s, one of the new political parties that emerged in the country was the [[Green Party of Hungary]]. Initially having a moderate centre-right green outlook, after 1993 the party adopted a radical anti-liberal, anti-communist, anti-Semitic and pro-fascist stance, paired with the creation of a paramilitary wing.<ref>{{cite book |last=Vida |first=István |title=Magyarországi politikai pártok lexikona (1846–2010) |trans-title=Encyclopedia of the Political Parties in Hungary (1846–2010) |publisher=Gondolat Kiadó |year=2011 |pages=430–432 |chapter=Magyarországi Zöld Párt (MZP) |isbn=978-963-693-276-3 |language=hu}}</ref> This ideological swing resulted in many members breaking off from the party to form new green parties, first with [[Green Alternative (Hungary)|Green Alternative]] in 1993 and secondly with [[Hungarian Social Green Party]] in 1995. Each green party remained on the political fringe of Hungarian politics and petered out over time. It was not until the formation of [[LMP – Hungary's Green Party]] in the 2010s that green politics in Hungary consolidated around a single green party.


The far-right Hungarian political party [[Our Homeland Movement]] has adopted some elements of environmentalism; for example, the party has called on Hungarians to show patriotism by supporting the removal of pollution from the [[Tisza River]] while simultaneously placing the blame on the pollution on [[Romania]] and [[Ukraine]].<ref name="Morgan Margulies">{{cite journal |last=Margulies |first=Morgan |date=2021 |title=Eco-Nationalism: A Historical Evaluation of Nationalist Praxes in Environmentalist and Ecologist Movements |url=https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/consilience/article/view/6226 |journal=Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development |issue=23 |pages=22–29 |doi=10.7916/consilience.vi23.6226 |access-date=21 December 2021}}</ref> Similarly, elements of the far-right [[Sixty-Four Counties Youth Movement]] proscribe themselves to the "Eco-Nationalist" label, with one member stating "no real nationalist is a climate denialist".<ref>{{cite news |last=Lubarda |first=Balsa |date=9 February 2021 |title=When Ecologism Turns (Far) Right: the Hungarian Laboratory |url=https://www.resetdoc.org/story/when-ecologism-turns-far-right-the-hungarian-laboratory/ |access-date=21 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511173719/https://www.resetdoc.org/story/when-ecologism-turns-far-right-the-hungarian-laboratory/ |archive-date=11 May 2021}}</ref>
The far-right Hungarian political party [[Our Homeland Movement]] has adopted some elements of environmentalism; for example, the party has called on Hungarians to show patriotism by supporting the removal of pollution from the [[Tisza River]] while simultaneously placing the blame on the pollution on [[Romania]] and [[Ukraine]].<ref name="Morgan Margulies">{{cite journal |last=Margulies |first=Morgan |date=2021 |title=Eco-Nationalism: A Historical Evaluation of Nationalist Praxes in Environmentalist and Ecologist Movements |url=https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/consilience/article/view/6226 |journal=Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development |issue=23 |pages=22–29 |doi=10.7916/consilience.vi23.6226 |access-date=21 December 2021}}</ref> Similarly, elements of the far-right [[Sixty-Four Counties Youth Movement]] proscribe themselves to the "Eco-Nationalist" label, with one member stating "no real nationalist is a climate denialist".<ref>{{cite news |last=Lubarda |first=Balša |date=9 February 2021 |title=When Ecologism Turns (Far) Right: the Hungarian Laboratory |url=https://www.resetdoc.org/story/when-ecologism-turns-far-right-the-hungarian-laboratory/ |access-date=21 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511173719/https://www.resetdoc.org/story/when-ecologism-turns-far-right-the-hungarian-laboratory/ |archive-date=11 May 2021}}</ref>


=== International ===
=== International ===
Greenline Front is an international network of ecofascists which originated in Eastern Europe, with chapters in a variety of countries such as Argentina, Belarus, Chile, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Spain and Switzerland.<ref>{{cite news |date=18 April 2022 |title=Eco-fascism 'proper': the curious case of Greenline Front |url=http://www.radicalrightanalysis.com/2020/06/25/eco-fascism-proper-the-curious-case-of-greenline-front/ |work=Center for Analysis of the Radical right |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200630175914/https://www.radicalrightanalysis.com/2020/06/25/eco-fascism-proper-the-curious-case-of-greenline-front/ |archive-date=30 June 2020}}</ref>
Greenline Front is an international network of ecofascists which originated in Eastern Europe, with chapters in a variety of countries such as Argentina, Belarus, Chile, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Spain and Switzerland.<ref name="Forchtner & Lubarda">{{cite news |first1=Bernhard |last1=Forchtner |first2=Balša |last2=Lubarda |date=18 April 2022 |title=Eco-fascism 'proper': the curious case of Greenline Front |url=http://www.radicalrightanalysis.com/2020/06/25/eco-fascism-proper-the-curious-case-of-greenline-front/ |work=Center for Analysis of the Radical Right |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200630175914/https://www.radicalrightanalysis.com/2020/06/25/eco-fascism-proper-the-curious-case-of-greenline-front/ |archive-date=30 June 2020}}</ref>


=== Serbia ===
=== Serbia ===
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|text=Unlike the fake "Greens" who are merely a front for the far left of the Labour regime, the BNP is the only party to recognise that overpopulation – whose primary driver is immigration, as revealed by the government's own figures – is the cause of the destruction of our environment. Furthermore, the BNP's manifesto states that a BNP government will make it a priority to stop building on green land. New housing should wherever possible be built on derelict "brown land".<ref name="BNP Question Time">{{cite news |last=Hickman |first=Leo |author-link=Leo Hickman |date=22 October 2009 |title=Nick Griffin's views on climate change and population can only be disdained on Question Time |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2009/oct/22/question-time-nick-griffin-bnp |work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=21 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211221165756/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2009/oct/22/question-time-nick-griffin-bnp |archive-date=21 December 2021}}</ref>}}
|text=Unlike the fake "Greens" who are merely a front for the far left of the Labour regime, the BNP is the only party to recognise that overpopulation – whose primary driver is immigration, as revealed by the government's own figures – is the cause of the destruction of our environment. Furthermore, the BNP's manifesto states that a BNP government will make it a priority to stop building on green land. New housing should wherever possible be built on derelict "brown land".<ref name="Hickman, 2009">{{cite news |last=Hickman |first=Leo |author-link=Leo Hickman |date=22 October 2009 |title=Nick Griffin's views on climate change and population can only be disdained on Question Time |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2009/oct/22/question-time-nick-griffin-bnp |work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=21 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211221165756/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2009/oct/22/question-time-nick-griffin-bnp |archive-date=21 December 2021}}</ref>}}


''[[The Guardian]]'' criticised Griffin's claims that himself and the BNP were truly environmentalists at heart, suggesting it was merely a smokescreen for anti-immigrant rhetoric and pointed to previous statements by Griffin in which he suggested that [[Climate change denial|climate change was a hoax]].<ref name="BNP Question Time"/> These suspicions seemed to be proven correct when in December 2009 the BNP released a 40-page document denying that [[global warming]] is a "man-made" phenomenon.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hickman |first=Leo |author-link=Leo Hickman |date=16 December 2009 |title=BNP document proves the far right is at home with climate change denial |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2009/dec/16/bnp-climate-change-denial |work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=21 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211113133517/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2009/dec/16/bnp-climate-change-denial |archive-date=13 November 2021}}</ref> The party reiterated this stance in 2011, as well as making claims that [[wind farms]] were the of cause the deaths of "thousands of Scottish pensioners from [[hypothermia]]".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/news/british-election-results-show-climate-change-denial-is-not-a-vote-winner/ |title=British election results show climate change denial is not a vote winner |last=Ward |first=Bob |date=11 May 2011 |publisher=[[London School of Economics]] |access-date=21 December 2021 |quote= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230214105501/https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/news/british-election-results-show-climate-change-denial-is-not-a-vote-winner/ |archive-date=14 February 2023}}</ref>
''[[The Guardian]]'' criticised Griffin's claims that himself and the BNP were truly environmentalists at heart, suggesting it was merely a smokescreen for anti-immigrant rhetoric and pointed to previous statements by Griffin in which he suggested that [[Climate change denial|climate change was a hoax]].{{r|Hickman, 2009}} These suspicions seemed to be proven correct when in December 2009 the BNP released a 40-page document denying that [[global warming]] is a "man-made" phenomenon.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hickman |first=Leo |author-link=Leo Hickman |date=16 December 2009 |title=BNP document proves the far right is at home with climate change denial |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2009/dec/16/bnp-climate-change-denial |work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=21 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211113133517/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2009/dec/16/bnp-climate-change-denial |archive-date=13 November 2021}}</ref> The party reiterated this stance in 2011, as well as making claims that [[wind farms]] were the of cause the deaths of "thousands of Scottish pensioners from [[hypothermia]]".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/news/british-election-results-show-climate-change-denial-is-not-a-vote-winner/ |title=British election results show climate change denial is not a vote winner |last=Ward |first=Bob |date=11 May 2011 |publisher=[[London School of Economics]] |access-date=21 December 2021 |quote= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230214105501/https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/news/british-election-results-show-climate-change-denial-is-not-a-vote-winner/ |archive-date=14 February 2023}}</ref>


=== United States ===
=== United States ===
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== Pejorative ==
== Pejorative ==
Detractors on the political right tend to use the term "ecofascism" as a [[hyperbole|hyperbolic]] general pejorative against all environmental activists, including more mainstream groups such as [[Greenpeace]] and the [[Sierra Club]].<ref name="smh">{{cite news |title=Green historian to Brandis: My Work's Been Abused |url=http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/13/1068674308841.html |access-date=9 October 2010 |newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |date=13 November 2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190922165707/https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/green-historian-to-brandis-my-works-been-abused-20031113-gdhrzb.html |archive-date=22 September 2019}}</ref> Such detractors include [[Rush Limbaugh]] and other conservative and [[wise use movement]] commentators.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blogs.wellesley.edu/es39901/2021/05/10/ecofascism-what-it-is-and-what-it-isnt/ |title=Ecofascism: What It Is and What It Isn’t |first=Paloma |last=Quiroga |date=10 May 2021 |website=Environmental Synthesis and Communication |publisher=[[Wellesley College]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210515001901/https://blogs.wellesley.edu/es39901/2021/05/10/ecofascism-what-it-is-and-what-it-isnt/ |archive-date=15 May 2021}}</ref>
Detractors on the political right tend to use the term "ecofascism" as a [[hyperbole|hyperbolic]] general pejorative against all environmental activists, including more mainstream groups such as [[Greenpeace]] and the [[Sierra Club]].<ref name="Staudenmaier 2003">{{cite news |first=Peter |last=Staudenmaier |title=Green historian to Brandis: My Work's Been Abused |url=http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/13/1068674308841.html |access-date=9 October 2010 |newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |date=13 November 2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190922165707/https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/green-historian-to-brandis-my-works-been-abused-20031113-gdhrzb.html |archive-date=22 September 2019}}</ref> Such detractors include [[Rush Limbaugh]] and other conservative and [[wise use movement]] commentators.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blogs.wellesley.edu/es39901/2021/05/10/ecofascism-what-it-is-and-what-it-isnt/ |title=Ecofascism: What It Is and What It Isn’t |first=Paloma |last=Quiroga |date=10 May 2021 |website=Environmental Synthesis and Communication |publisher=[[Wellesley College]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210515001901/https://blogs.wellesley.edu/es39901/2021/05/10/ecofascism-what-it-is-and-what-it-isnt/ |archive-date=15 May 2021}}</ref>


== See also ==
== See also ==
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* [[Terrorgram]]
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=== Bibliography ===
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* {{cite journal |last1=Cawood |first1=Helen |last2=Vuuren |first2=Xany Jansen Van |title=Reconceptualising ecofascism in the Global South: an ecosemiotic approach to problematising marginalised nostalgic narratives |date=31 December 2022 |doi=10.18820/24150479/aa54i3/5 |issn=0587-2405 |journal=Acta Academica |volume=54 |number=3 |pages=81–107}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Dyett |first1=Jordan |last2=Thomas |first2=Cassidy |date=2019 |title=Overpopulation Discourse: Patriarchy, Racism, and the Specter of Ecofascism |journal=Perspectives on Global Development and Technology |volume=18 |number=1–2 |pages=205–224 |doi=10.1163/15691497-12341514}}
* {{cite report |last1=Ross |first1=Alexander Reid |last2=Bevensee |first2=Emmi |title=Confronting the Rise of EcoFascism Means Grappling with Complex Systems |url=https://usercontent.one/wp/www.radicalrightanalysis.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Ross_Bevensee_2020.3.pdf?media=1668414821 |series=CARR Research Insight |publisher=Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right |date=July 2020}}
* {{Cite book |last1=Taylor |first1=Bron |author1-link=Bron Taylor |last2=Zimmerman |first2=Michael E. |author2-link=Michael E. Zimmerman |chapter=Deep Ecology |chapter-url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=i4mvAwAAQBAJ&q=deep%20ecology |title=Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature |volume=1 |editor-last=Taylor |editor-first=Bron R. |editor-link=Bron Taylor |date=2008 |publisher=[[Continuum International Publishing Group|Continuum]] |location=London, UK |isbn=978-1-44-112278-0 |pages=456–460 |via=[[Google Books]]}}
* {{Cite book |last=Zimmerman |first=Michael E. |author-link=Michael E. Zimmerman |chapter=Ecofascism |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i4mvAwAAQBAJ&q=ecofascism |title=Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature |volume=1 |editor-last=Taylor |editor-first=Bron R. |editor-link=Bron Taylor |date=2008 |publisher=[[Continuum International Publishing Group|Continuum]] |location=London, UK |isbn=978-1-44-112278-0 |pages=531–532 |via=[[Google Books]]}}
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== External links ==
* {{cite web |url=http://www.redpepper.org.uk/darker-shades-of-green/ |title=Darker shades of Green |first=Derek |last=Wall |website=[[Red Pepper (magazine)|Red Pepper]]}}
* {{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cif-green/2010/sep/16/authoritarianism-ecofascism-alternative |title=An alternative to the new wave of ecofascism |first=Micah |last=White |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=16 September 2010}}


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Ecofascism is a term which is used to describe individuals and groups which combine environmentalism with fascist viewpoints and tactics. Originally, the term "ecofascist" was considered an academic term for a hypothetical type of government which would militantly enforce environmental measures over the needs and freedoms of its citizens.[1]

In non-academic circles, the term "ecofascist" was originally used as a slur against the emerging environmental movement from the 1970s onwards, with André Gorz speaking of eco-fascism as early as 1977 to characterize (feared) forms of totalitarianism based on an exclusively ecological orientation of politics.[2] However, since the 2010s, a number of individuals and groups have emerged that either self-identify as "ecofascist" or have been labelled so by academic or journalistic sources.[3] These individuals and groups synthesise radical far-right politics with environmentalism[4][5] and will typically advocate that overpopulation is the primary threat to the environment and that the only solution is to completely halt immigration, or at their most extreme, actively commit genocide against minority groups and ethnicities.[6][7][8] As environmentalism has become more and more mainstream in recent decades, many far-right political parties have experimented with adding green politics to their platforms, while since the 2010s a number of terrorists internationally have cited ecofascism as their motive.[6][7][9]

Definition

In 2005, environmental historian Michael E. Zimmerman defined "ecofascism" as "a totalitarian government that requires individuals to sacrifice their interests to the well-being of the 'land', understood as the splendid web of life, or the organic whole of nature, including peoples and their states".[1] Zimmerman argued that while no ecofascist government has existed so far, "important aspects of it can be found in German National Socialism, one of whose central slogans was "Blood and Soil".[1] Other political agendas instead of environmental protection and prevention of climate change are nationalist approaches to climate such as national economic environmentalism and securitization of climate change.[10]

Vice has defined ecofascism as an ideology "which blames the demise of the environment on overpopulation, immigration, and over-industrialization, problems that followers think could be partly remedied through the mass murder of refugees in Western countries."[6] Environmentalist author Naomi Klein has suggested that ecofascists' primary objectives are to close borders to immigrants and, on the more extreme end, to embrace the idea of climate change as a divinely-ordained signal to begin a mass purge of sections of the human race. Ecofascism is "environmentalism through genocide", opined Klein.[7] Political researcher Alex Amend defined ecofascist belief as "The devaluing of human life—particularly of populations seen as inferior—in order to protect the environment viewed as essential to White identity."[11]

Terrorism researcher Kristy Campion defined ecofascism as "a reactionary and revolutionary ideology that champions the regeneration of an imagined community through a return to a romanticised, ethnopluralist vision of the natural order."[12]

Helen Cawood and Xany Jansen Van Vuuren have criticised previous attempts to define ecofascism as focussing too heavily on environmental and ecological conservationism in historical fascist movements, and their definitions being too broad and encompassing many ontologically different ideologies.[13] In their criticism they summarise the current definition of ecofascism as used in the academic literature as "a movement that uses environmental and ecological conservationist talking points to push an ideology of ethnic or racial separatism".[14]

Ideological origins

Madison Grant

Sometimes dubbed the "founding father" of ecofascism,[15][16] Madison Grant was a pioneer of conservationism in America in the late 19th and early 20th century. Grant is credited as a founder of modern wildlife management. Grant built the Bronx River Parkway, was a co-founder of the American Bison Society, and helped create Glacier National Park, Olympic National Park, Everglades National Park and Denali National Park. As president of the New York Zoological Society, he founded the Bronx Zoo in 1899.[17]

In addition to his conservationist work, Grant was a trenchant racist. In 1906, Grant supported the placement of Ota Benga, a member of the Mbuti people who was kidnapped, removed from his home in the Congo, and put on display in the Bronx Zoo as an exhibit in the Monkey House.[15][16] In 1916, Grant wrote The Passing of the Great Race, a work of pseudoscientific literature which claimed to give an account of the anthropological history of Europe. The book divides Europeans into three races; Alpines, Mediterraneans and Nordics, and it also claims that the first two races are inferior to the superior Nordic race, which is the only race which is fit to rule the earth. Adolf Hitler would later describe Grant's book as "his bible" and Grant's "Nordic theory" became the bedrock of Nazi racial theories.[17][18][19] Additionally, Grant was a eugenicist: He was the director of the American Eugenics Society and he also advocated the culling of the unfit from the human population. Grant concocted a 100-year plan to perfect the human race, a plan in which one ethnic group after another would be killed off until racial purity would be obtained.[15] Grant campaigned for the passage of the Emergency Quota Act of 1921 and he also campaigned for the passage of the Immigration Restriction Act of 1924, which drastically reduced the number of immigrants from Eastern Europe and Asia who were allowed to enter the United States.[19]

In the modern era, Grant's ideas have been cited by advocates of far-right politics such as Richard Spencer[17] and Anders Breivik.[16][20]

Nazism

The authors Janet Biehl and Peter Staudenmaier suggest that the synthesis of fascism and environmentalism began with Nazism, stating that 19th and 20th century Germany was early ground of ecofascist thought, finding its antecedents in many prominent natural scientists and environmentalists, including Ernst Moritz Arndt, Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl, and Ernst Haeckel. With the works and ideas of such individuals being later established as policies in the Nazi regime.[21] This is supported by other researchers who identify the Völkisch movement as an ideological originator of later ecofascism.[22] In Biehl and Staudenmaier's book Ecofascism: Lessons from the German Experience, they note the Nazi Party's interest in ecology, and suggest their interest was "linked with traditional agrarian romanticism and hostility to urban civilization".[23][24] With Zimmerman pointing to the works of conservationist and Nazi Walther Schoenichen as having pertinence to later ecofascism and similarities to developments in deep ecological understanding.[25] During the Nazi rise to power, there was strong support for the Nazis among German environmentalists and conservationists.[26] Richard Walther Darré, a leading Nazi ideologist who invented the term "Blood and Soil", developed a concept of the nation having a mystic connection with their homeland, and as such, the nation was dutybound to take care of the land. Because of this, modern ecofascists cite the Nazi Party as an origin point of ecofascism.[27][28] Beyond Darré, Rudolf Hess and Fritz Todt are viewed as representatives of environmentalism within the Nazi party.[29] Roger Griffin has also pointed to the glorification of wildlife in Nazi art and ruralism in the novels of the fascist sympathizers Knut Hamsun and Henry Williamson as examples.[30]

After the outlawing of the neo-nazi Socialist Reich Party, one of its members August Haußleiter moved towards organizing within the environmental and anti-nuclear movements, going on to become a founding member of the German Green Party. When green activists later uncovered his past activities in the neo-nazi movement, Haußleiter was forced to step down as the party's chairman, although he continued to hold a central role in the party newspaper. As efforts to expel nationalist elements within the party continued, a conservative faction split off and founded the Ecological Democratic Party, which became noted for persistent holocaust denial, rejection of social justice and opposition to immigration.[31]

Savitri Devi

Savitri Devi's avowed Nazism, combined with her advocacy of animal rights and vegetarianism, has made her a figure of interest to ecofascists

The French-born Greek fascist Savitri Devi (born Maximiani Julia Portas) was a prominent proponent of Esoteric Nazism and deep ecology. A fanatical supporter of Hitler and the Nazi Party from the 1930s onwards, she also supported animal rights activism and was a vegetarian from a young age. She put forward ecologist views in her works, such as the Impeachment of Man (1959), in which she declared her views on animal rights and nature. According to her, human beings do not stand above the animals; but in her ecologist views, humans are rather a part of the ecosystem and should respect all life, including animals and the whole of nature. Because of her dual devotion to both Nazism and deep ecology, she is considered an influential figure in ecofascist circles.[32][33]

Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber

Ted Kaczynski AKA "The Unabomber" in a mug shot taken shortly after his arrest in April 1996.

Ted Kaczynski, better known as "The Unabomber", is a figure cited as highly influential upon ecofascist thought. Between 1978 and 1995 Kaczynski instigated a terrorist bombing campaign aimed at inciting a revolution against modern industrial society, in the name of returning humanity to a primitive state he suggested offered humanity more freedom while protecting the environment. In 1995 Kaczynski offered to end his bombing campaign if The Washington Post or The New York Times would publish his 35,000-word Unabomber manifesto. Hoping to save lives, both newspapers agreed to those terms. The manifesto railed not only against modern industrial society but also against "modern leftists", whom Kaczynski defined as "mainly socialists, collectivists, 'politically correct' types, feminists, gay and disability activists, animal rights activists and the like".[34]

Because of Kaczynski's intelligence and ability to write in a high-level academic tone, his manifesto was given serious consideration upon release and became highly influential, even amongst those who severely disagreed with his use of violence. Kaczynski's staunchly radical pro-green, anti-left work was quickly absorbed into ecofascist thought.[27]

Kaczynski also criticized the right wing for their support for technological and economic progress while complaining about a decay of tradition, stating that technology erodes traditional social mores that conservatives and right wingers want to protect, and referred to conservatives as fools.[35]

Although Kaczynski and his manifesto has been embraced by ecofascists,[27] he rejected 'fascism',[36] including specifically "the 'ecofascists'", describing 'ecofascism' itself as 'an aberrant branch of leftism':[37][38]

The true anti-tech movement rejects every form of racism or ethnocentrism. This has nothing to do with "tolerance," "diversity," "pluralism," "multiculturalism," "equality," or "social justice." The rejection of racism and ethnocentrism is - purely and simply - a cardinal point of strategy.[37]

In his manifesto Kaczynski wrote that he considered fascism a "kook ideology" and Nazism as "evil".[36] Kaczynski never tried to align himself with the far-right at any point before or after his arrest.[36]

In 2017 Netflix released a dramatisation of Kaczynski's life, entitled Manhunt: Unabomber. The popularity of the show thrust Kaczynski and his manifesto once again into the public's mind and raised the profile of ecofascism.[27][28][36]

Garrett Hardin, Pentti Linkola, and "Lifeboat Ethics"

Pentti Linkola's advocacy of "Lifeboat Ethics" is cited by commentators as an example of ecofascism

Two figures influential in ecofascism are Garrett Hardin and Pentti Linkola, both of whom were proponents of what they refer to as "Lifeboat Ethics". Hardin was an American ecologist accused by the Southern Poverty Law Center of being a white nationalist,[39] whilst Linkola was a Finnish ecologist accused of being an active ecofascist who actively advocated ending democracy and replacing it with dictatorships that would use totalitarian and even genocidal tactics to end climate change.[40][41] Both men used versions of the following analogy to illustrate their viewpoint:

What to do, when a ship carrying a hundred passengers suddenly capsizes and there is only one lifeboat? When the lifeboat is full, those who hate life will try to load it with more people and sink the lot. Those who love and respect life will take the ship's axe and sever the extra hands that cling to the sides.[27][28]

Association with violence

Academics and researchers warn that as ecoLogical crises worsen and remain unaddressed support for ecofascism and violence in the name of ecofascism will increase.[42]

James Jay Lee, the eco-terrorist who took several hostages at the Discovery Communications headquarters on 1 September 2010, was described as an ecofascist by Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center.[43]

William H. Stoetzer, a member of the Atomwaffen Division, an organization responsible for at least eight murders, was active in the Earth Liberation Front as late as 2008 and joined Atomwaffen in 2016.[44]

Brenton Tarrant, the Australian-born perpetrator of the Christchurch mosque shootings in New Zealand described himself as an ecofascist,[45][46][47] ethno-nationalist, and racist[48][49] in his manifesto The Great Replacement, named after a far-right conspiracy theory[50] originating in France. Jordan Weissmann, writing for Slate, describes the perpetrator's version of ecofascism as "an established, if somewhat obscure, brand of neo-Nazi"[51] and quotes Sarah Manavis of New Statesman as saying, "[Eco-fascists] believe that living in the original regions a race is meant to have originated in and shunning multiculturalism is the only way to save the planet they prioritise above all else".[51] Similarly, Luke Darby clarifies it as: "eco-fascism is not the fringe hippie movement usually associated with ecoterrorism. It's a belief that the only way to deal with climate change is through eugenics and the brutal suppression of migrants."[16]

Patrick Crusius, the perpetrator of the 2019 El Paso shooting wrote a similar manifesto, professing support for Tarrant.[52][47][53] Posted to the online message board 8chan,[54] it blames immigration to the United States for environmental destruction,[55] saying that American lifestyles were "destroying the environment",[56] invoking an ecological burden to be borne by future generations,[46][16] and concluding that the solution was to "decrease the number of people in America using resources".[56] Crusius and Tarrant also inspired Philip Manshaus who attacked a mosque in Norway in 2019.[57][58]

Eco-fascists have been noted as using the Algiz rune and pine tree emojis to identity each other online on social media platforms[59][60]

The Swedish self-identified ecofascist Green Brigade is an eco-terrorist group linked to The Base that is responsible for multiple mass murder plots. The Green Brigade has been responsible for arson attacks against targets deemed to be enemies of nature,[6] like an attack on a mink farm that caused multi-million-dollar damages. Two members were arrested by Swedish police, allegedly planning assassinating judges and bombings.[61][62]

In December 2020, the Swedish Defence Research Agency released a report on ecofascism. The paper argued that ecofascism is intimately tied to the ideology of accelerationism, and ecofascists nearly exclusively choose terror tactics over the political approach. Further, the SDRA argues not all ecofascist mass shooters have been recognized as such: Pekka-Eric Auvinen who shot eight people in Finland before killing himself adhered to the ideology according to his manifesto titled "The Natural Selector's Manifesto". He advocated "total war against humanity" due to the threat humanity posed to other species. He wrote that death and killing is not a tragedy, as it constantly happens in nature between all species. Auvinen also wrote that the modern society hinders "natural justice" and that all inferior "subhumans" should be killed and only the elite of humanity be spared. In one of his YouTube videos Auvinen paid tribute to the prominent ecofascist Pentti Linkola.[63]

Payton S. Gendron, the instigator of the 2022 Buffalo shooting, also wrote a manifesto self-describing as "an ethno-nationalist eco-fascist national socialist" within it and also professing support for far-right shooters from Tarrant and Dylann Roof to Anders Behring Breivik and Robert Bowers.[64][65]

Critiques

The deep ecologic activist and "left biocentrism" advocate David Orton stated in 2000 that the term is pejorative in nature and it has "social ecology roots, against the deep ecology movement and its supporters plus, more generally, the environmental movement. Thus, 'ecofascist' and 'ecofascism', are used not to enlighten but to smear." Orton argued that "it is a strange term/concept to really have any conceptual validity" as there has not "yet been a country that has had an "eco-fascist" government or, to my knowledge, a political organization which has declared itself publicly as organized on an ecofascist basis."[66][a]

Accusations of ecofascism have often been made but are usually strenuously denied.[66][67] Left wing critiques view ecofascism as an assault on human rights, as in social ecologist Murray Bookchin's use of the term.[68]

Deep ecology

Deep ecology is an environmental philosophy that promotes the inherent worth of all living beings regardless of their instrumental utility to human needs. It has long been linked fascist ideologies, both by critics and fascist proponents.[25] In certain texts, the Norwegian philosopher Arne Næss, a leading voice of the "Deep ecology" movement, opposes environmentalism and humanism, even proclaiming, in imitation of a famous phrase of the Marquis de Sade, "Écologistes, encore un effort pour devenir anti-humanistes" ("Ecologists, another effort to become anti-humanists!").[69] Luc Ferry, in his anti-environmentalist book Le Nouvel Ordre écologique [fr] published in 1992, particularly incriminated deep ecology as being an anti-humanist ideology bordering on Nazism.[70][71]

Bookchin's critique of deep ecology

Murray Bookchin criticizes the political position of deep ecologists such as David Foreman:

There are barely disguised racists, survivalists, macho Daniel Boones, and outright social reactionaries who use the word ecology to express their views, just as there are deeply concerned naturalists, communitarians, social radicals, and feminists who use the word ecology to express theirs... It was out of this former kind of crude eco-brutalism that Hitler, in the name of "population control," with a racial orientation, fashioned theories of blood and soil... The same eco-brutalism now reappears a half-century later among self-professed deep ecologists who believe that Third World peoples should be permitted to starve to death and that desperate Indian immigrants from Latin America should be excluded by the border cops from the United States lest they burden "our" ecological resources.[68]

Sakai on "natural purity"

Such observations among the left are not exclusive to Bookchin. In his review of Anna Bramwell's biography of Richard Walther Darré, political writer J. Sakai and author of Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat, observes the fascist ideological undertones of natural purity.[72] Prior to the Russian Revolution, the tsarist intelligentsia was divided on the one hand between liberal "utilitarian naturalists", who were "taken with the idea of creating a paradise on earth through scientific mastery of nature" and influenced by nihilism as well as Russian zoologists such as Anatoli Petrovich Bogdanov; and, on the other, "cultural-aesthetic" conservationists such as Ivan Parfenevich Borodin, who were influenced in turn by German Romantic and idealist concepts such as Landschaftspflege and Naturdenkmal.[73]

Narrowness of label

Political scientist Balša Lubarda has criticised the use of the term "ecofascism" as not sufficiently covering and describing the wider network of ideologies and systems that feed into ecofascist action, suggesting the term "far-right ecologism" (FRE) instead.[74][75] Lubarda is supported by researcher Bernhard Forchtner who emphasises ecofascism's existence as a fringe ideology that has had little impact on the wider far-right's interaction with environmentalism.[53][76]

Far-right green movements

Austria

The Greens of Austria [de] (DGÖ) had been founded in 1982 by the former NDP official Alfred Bayer to use the popularity of the green movement at the time for the purposes of the NDP. The party managed to win a number of municipal seats in the mid-1980s but in 1988 the Constitutional Court banned the party on grounds of Neo-Nazism alongside a parallel ban on the NDP.[77]

France

Nouvelle Droite movement

The European Nouvelle Droite movement, developed by Alain de Benoist and other individuals involved with the GRECE think tank, have also combined various left-wing ideas, including green politics, with right-wing ideas such as European ethnonationalism.[30][47][78] Various other far-right figures have taken the lead from de Benoist, providing an appeal to nature in their politics, including: Guillaume Faye, Renaud Camus, and Hervé Juvin.[47]

Génération identitaire

In 2020, following articles from self-described ecofascist Piero San Giorgio [fr], a spokesperson for Génération identitaire, Clément Martin, advocated for zones identitaires à défendre, ethnically homogenous zones to be violently defended in order to protect the environment.[47]

Germany

The NPD

Frank Franz, the current leader of the NPD, in 2017.

The National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD), a German Nationalist Far right party, has recently supported the green movement. This is one of many strategies the party has used to try to gain supporters.[79]

The German far-right has published the magazine Umwelt & Aktiv [de], that masquerades as a garden and nature publication but intertwines garden tips with extremist political ideology.[80][81][82] This is known as a “camouflage publication” in which the NPD has spread its mission and ideologies through a discrete source and made its way into homes they otherwise wouldn’t. Right-wing environmentalists are settling in the northern regions of rural Germany and are forming nationalistic and authoritarian communities which produce honey, fresh produce, baked goods, and other such farm goods for profit. Their ideology is centered around “blood and soil” ruralism in which they humanely raise produce and animals for profit and sustenance. Through their support of this operation, and the backing of many others, it’s reported that the NPD is trying to wrestle the green movement, which has been dominated by the left since the 1980s, back from the left through these avenues.

It’s difficult to know if when one is buying local produce or farm fresh eggs from a farmer at their stand, they’re supporting a right-wing agenda. Various efforts are being made to halt or slow the infiltration of right-wing ecologists into the community of organic farmers such as brochures about their communities and common practices. However, as the organic cultivation organization, Biopark, demonstrates with their vetting process, it’s difficult to keep people out of communities because of their ideologies. Biopark specifies that they vet based on cultivation habits, not opinions or doctrines, especially when they’re not explicitly stated.[79]

Collegium Humanum

The Collegium Humanum was an ecofascist organisation in Germany from 1963 to 2008. It was established in 1963[83] as a club, was first active in the German environmental movement, then from the early 1980s became a far-right political organisation and was banned in 2008 by the Federal Minister of the Interior Wolfgang Schäuble due to "continued denial of the Holocaust".[84]

Other groups

The term is also used to a limited extent within the Neue Rechte.[85]

Hungary

László Toroczkai, leader of the Our Homeland Movement party, speaking at Corvin köz.

Following the fall of Communism in Hungary at the end of the 1980s, one of the new political parties that emerged in the country was the Green Party of Hungary. Initially having a moderate centre-right green outlook, after 1993 the party adopted a radical anti-liberal, anti-communist, anti-Semitic and pro-fascist stance, paired with the creation of a paramilitary wing.[86] This ideological swing resulted in many members breaking off from the party to form new green parties, first with Green Alternative in 1993 and secondly with Hungarian Social Green Party in 1995. Each green party remained on the political fringe of Hungarian politics and petered out over time. It was not until the formation of LMP – Hungary's Green Party in the 2010s that green politics in Hungary consolidated around a single green party.

The far-right Hungarian political party Our Homeland Movement has adopted some elements of environmentalism; for example, the party has called on Hungarians to show patriotism by supporting the removal of pollution from the Tisza River while simultaneously placing the blame on the pollution on Romania and Ukraine.[87] Similarly, elements of the far-right Sixty-Four Counties Youth Movement proscribe themselves to the "Eco-Nationalist" label, with one member stating "no real nationalist is a climate denialist".[88]

International

Greenline Front is an international network of ecofascists which originated in Eastern Europe, with chapters in a variety of countries such as Argentina, Belarus, Chile, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Spain and Switzerland.[53]

Serbia

Leviathan Movement promotes ecology and protects animals from cruelty by, among other things, saving them from abusers. Leviathan has been reported as an ideologically neo-fascist[89] and neo-nazi group.[90] They used to share an office with the Serbian Right, a far-right political party, and Leviathan ’s leader, Pavle Bihali, is seen in pictures on his social media accounts posing with neo-Nazis.[91]

Switzerland

In Switzerland, the initiators of the Ecopop initiative were accused of eco-fascism by FDFA State Secretary Yves Rossier [de] at a Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland event on 11 January 2013.[92] However, after threatening to sue, Rossier apologized for the allegation.[93]

United Kingdom

There is also a historic tradition between the far-right and environmentalism in the UK.[94] Throughout its history, the far-right British National Party has flirted on and off with environmentalism. During the 1970s the party's first leader John Bean expressed support for the emerging environmentalist movement in the pages of the party's newspaper and suggested the primary cause of pollution as overpopulation, and therefore immigration into Britain must be halted.[95] During the 2000s the BNP sought to position itself as the "only 'true' green party in the United Kingdom, dedicating a significant portion of their manifestos to green issues. During an appearance on BBC One's Question Time in October 2009, then-leader Nick Griffin proclaimed:

Unlike the fake "Greens" who are merely a front for the far left of the Labour regime, the BNP is the only party to recognise that overpopulation – whose primary driver is immigration, as revealed by the government's own figures – is the cause of the destruction of our environment. Furthermore, the BNP's manifesto states that a BNP government will make it a priority to stop building on green land. New housing should wherever possible be built on derelict "brown land".[96]

The Guardian criticised Griffin's claims that himself and the BNP were truly environmentalists at heart, suggesting it was merely a smokescreen for anti-immigrant rhetoric and pointed to previous statements by Griffin in which he suggested that climate change was a hoax.[96] These suspicions seemed to be proven correct when in December 2009 the BNP released a 40-page document denying that global warming is a "man-made" phenomenon.[97] The party reiterated this stance in 2011, as well as making claims that wind farms were the of cause the deaths of "thousands of Scottish pensioners from hypothermia".[98]

United States

During the 1990s a highly militant environmentalist subculture called Hardline emerged out of the straight edge hardcore punk music scene and established itself in a number of cities across the US. Adherents to the Hardline lifestyle combined the straight edge belief in no alcohol, no drugs, no tobacco with militant veganism and advocacy for animal rights. Hardline touted a biocentric worldview that claimed to value all life, and therefore opposed abortion, contraceptives, and sex for any purpose other than procreation. On this same line, Hardline opposed homosexuality as "unnatural" and a "deviant”.[99] Hardline groups were highly militant; In 1999 Salt Lake City grouped Hardliners as a criminal gang and suggested they were behind dozens of assaults in the metro area.[100] That same year CBS News reported that Hardliners were behind the firebombing of fast food outlets and clothing stores selling leather items, and attributed 30 attacks to Hardliners.[101] The Hardline subculture dissolved after the 1990s.

Pejorative

Detractors on the political right tend to use the term "ecofascism" as a hyperbolic general pejorative against all environmental activists, including more mainstream groups such as Greenpeace and the Sierra Club.[67] Such detractors include Rush Limbaugh and other conservative and wise use movement commentators.[102]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Since 2000, multiple individuals and groups have self described as ecofascists, including:

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