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Is ecofascism a real ideology? I’ve never run into a single adherent.
Few fascists call themselves fascists. But ecofascism is mostly used as a descriptor for policies and policy priorities that are genocidal in the name of ecology, even though the proponents may be non-fascist in other areas.
For example, a neoliberal legislator may cut foreign aid because it’s going to industries that emit carbon, while simultaneously cutting public transit funding to promote driving. Or a neoconservative may increase the funding for border police by a massive amount because climate change will lead to an increasing number of climate refugees.
It’s a cool-sounding buzzword to use against people concerned about the environment so you can sound like a leftist while protecting overconsumption.
Yes but counterpoint, capitalism is a human invention so humans (at our current state) are still the root cause
And it’s not like it was all utopian paradise before capitalism was invented.
Always lovely when we take extremely complicated problems and conclude “it’s simple, we kill my favorite pet peeve”
Communist countries did some pretty heinous stuff to the environment, too. Industrialization lets us fuck things up efficiently regardless of the economic system.
Yeah, it is not Capitalism alone, but a Promethean Worldview. Authoritarian communist countries hat that one embedded as well.
This is why we need not only a change of economic system, but a shift in perception of nature as well.
Doesn’t fascism require a strong man leader?
I’m all for calling out destructive ideologies but if we call everything fascism then it’s really going to dilute the power of the term.
Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet.
You’re doing the thing
yes. Just replace Human or Human Being with Capitalism and Smiths observation holds true :)
Capitalism is largely responsible for climate change. Deforestation and aquifer depletion are more directly linked to population growth. Communism wouldn’t magically make industrial agriculture go away
True, however there are different ways to do it, I think its Denmark? that gets more than double the yield/acre than the world average utilizing a lot of greenhouses and what amounts to pretty much hydroponics lite. If half of agriculture land suddenly didn’t need to be used that way it would be huge.
Who invented capitalism again?
Captain Capital.
