ecofascist

plural ecofascists · alternative eco-fascist

1. A proponent of ecofascism.

   Mr. Bookchin, in turn, called deep ecologists "eco-fascists," partly because they wanted to limit the population radically.

   2006 August 7, Douglas Martin, “Murray Bookchin, 85, Writer, Activist and Ecology Theorist, Dies”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

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   This brand of environmentalism only emboldens ecofascists who rightly claim that shopping green can never stop the ecological crisis. And yet, ecofascists are wrong to suggest that the suspension of democracy is the only alternative.

   2010 September 16, Micah White, “An alternative to the new wave of ecofascism”, in The Guardian

   A week prior, on an Instagram account reportedly linked to the alleged Gilroy, California, garlic festival shooter, he complained about migrant-driven sprawl. Months before, the Christchurch, New Zealand, shooter called himself an “eco-fascist”.

   2019 August 16, Susie Cagle, “'Bees, not refugees': the environmentalist roots of anti-immigrant bigotry”, in The Guardian

   Modern eco-fascists still draw on the same Romantic contrast between the sublime hierarchies of nature and the supposedly effete degeneracy of modernity.

   2019 November 29, Jeff Sparrow, “Eco-fascists and the ugly fight for 'our way of life' as the environment disintegrates”, in The Guardian

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1. Relating to ecofascism.

   Representatives of this line of thought around the world are, in many cases, echoing eco-fascist ideas that themselves are rooted in an earlier age of blood-and-soil nationalism.

   2021 November 21, Oliver Milman, “Climate denial is waning on the right. What’s replacing it might be just as scary”, in The Guardian