New piece from Kingsnorth - Ecofascism is our future

[UndercoverElephant]

https://unherd.com/2021/07/eco-fascism-is-our-future/

By the time some of the environmentalists realised who they had sold their soul to, it was too late. But what, in any case, had the alternative been? The small-is-beautiful crowd, with their patchouli-scented jumpers and their 1970s talk about limits and sovereignty, had been cancelled as eco-fascists long ago, exiled to distant smallholdings and housing co-ops with their well-thumbed copies of Tools for Conviviality and other yellowing tomes by dead white men. Now that an actual eco-fascism was on the horizon — a global merger of state and corporate power in pursuit of progress that would have made Mussolini weep like a proud grandfather — there was nothing to stand in its way.

[clv101]

That's brilliant, pretty much how I see things panning out! It's the same framework as Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future - but an alternative ending. Would make a great annex.

Ecologist also had an ecofascism piece recently: https://theecologist.org/2021/jun/25/threat-ecofascism

[Potemkin Villager]

Sounds like the arch druid of Galway has been on the Poitín!