Eco-fascism is undergoing a revival in the fetid culture of the extreme right | Jason Wilson

Some see looming ecological collapse as an opportunity to re-order society along their preferred, frankly genocidal, lines

In his shoddy manifesto, the accused shooter in Christchurch identified as an “eco-fascist”.

Over the weekend Kellyanne Conway seized on the term – which is unfamiliar to many – to lump him in with so-called “eco-terrorists”, saying “He’s not a conservative. He’s not a Nazi.” No doubt she was banking on common understandings of contemporary environmentalism to draw a link to the political left.

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