The Arctic region has been a massive store of carbon for thousands of years. Now it’s warming between 3 and 7 times faster than the global average and that carbon is escaping into our atmosphere. The latest research suggests that more than a third of it is now a net emitter! And in case you’re wondering…that’s NOT good!

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    Here, some context:

    https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/californian-ideology

    https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-acronym-behind-our-wildest-ai-dreams-and-nightmares/

    https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13636

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y-erGt0LsU

    https://thebaffler.com/latest/first-as-tragedy-then-as-fascism-amend

    https://itsgoingdown.org/ecofascism-overpopulation-and-total-transformation/

    Fascists want what they always want, action on conservative goals: “more for me, less for everyone else”, with an ambiguous and dynamic “me group” usually. Sometimes it’s just a family clan thing, and it can even be reduced to the “Sovereign Citizen” who’s doing a type of solo fascism (ancaps).

    A shrinking environment means, for fascists & friends, fewer resources to use for themselves, thus a reason to take even more resources from others. It’s the prepper ideology at a large scale - survival of the fittest group by hoarding resources and killing the competition.

    The techbro types have their own version of this, as mentioned above with the TESCREAL ideologies.

    To summarize this in a different way, ecofascists look at the problem of overshoot (includes global warming) as “how to get rid of the competition in order to reduce the overall damage and thus achieve ‘sustainability’”.

    If you’re familiar ideas like the Kaya identity then you understand the very basic: IMPACT = population size x average individual impact. Fascists love the high impact living (high consumption, lots of waste and pollution) and want to fix the impact problem by reducing the population size, not the nice lifestyle. This applies proportionally to the rich, the billionaires. Fascist narratives help to outline which population to reduce and which population to preserve (see: “the great replacement” conspiracy theory). This isn’t super precise, they constantly redefine groups and there’s, of course, a hierarchy or caste system aspect to it, since the rich and privileged depend on the poor and exploited. Techbros hope to achieve fully automated capitalism, so that they no longer depend on the masses. You can guess what happens if that happens.