Buffalo suspect may be latest mass shooter motivated by ‘eco-fascism’ - The Guardian US
Buffalo suspect allegedly calls himself ‘eco-fascist’ and blames migration for harm to the environment in document posted online.
The Buffalo suspect calls himself an “eco-fascist” and blames migration for harm to the environment in the document posted online.This invocation of eco-fascism, or green racism, echoes that of a white nationalist who killed 51 people in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019.Studies have repeatedly shown that migration itself does not cause an increase in carbon emissions or other pollution – indeed, American-born people are far larger consumers of resources than new immigrants – and that voracious consumption, rather than population per se, is the primary driver of the climate and ecological crises that currently grip the world.Hartmann said the rise of Donald Trump and Republicans’ embrace of anti-immigrant rhetoric is fueling the spread of so-called eco-fascism, as well as growing alarm, particularly among younger people, over the climate emergency.“For younger people, the more apocalyptic images of climate change can fit into the white supremacist view of apocalypse, too,” she said.