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The unwillingness to question overconsumption not only prevents realistic economic solutions for climate mitigation. It is fuel for eco-fascism: 'The El Paso Shooter's manifesto suggests Americans overconsumption will never stop, so the only option is “get rid of enough people” to make the American lifestyle “more sustainable.”' "When we [=rich people, rich economies] say that reducing our consumption is too hard, too complicated, doesn't fit with our societies, we are implicitly condemning others. Ecofascism makes it explicit: only overconsumers deserve to live." (From a twitter thread about this article: [https://twitter.com/JKSteinberger/status/1159314327171735552](https://twitter.com/JKSteinberger/status/1159314327171735552) ) The rhetoric of ecofascism is absolutely continuous with and reinforced by the rhetoric of capitalism and its growth imperative.

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Joanna Pope

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The unwillingness to question overconsumption not only prevents realistic economic solutions for climate mitigation. It is fuel for eco-fascism: 'The El Paso Shooter's manifesto suggests Americans overconsumption will never stop, so the only option is “get rid of enough people” to make the American lifestyle “more sustainable.”' "When we [=rich people, rich economies] say that reducing our consumption is too hard, too complicated, doesn't fit with our societies, we are implicitly condemning others. Ecofascism makes it explicit: only overconsumers deserve to live." (From a twitter thread about this article: [https://twitter.com/JKSteinberger/status/1159314327171735552](https://twitter.com/JKSteinberger/status/1159314327171735552) ) The rhetoric of ecofascism is absolutely continuous with and reinforced by the rhetoric of capitalism and its growth imperative.

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Another article on this: The environmentalism of this manifesto begins with an assertion that is not unique to the far-right: Americans are not willing to change their ecologically destructive way of life, therefore any viable climate solution must proceed accordingly. It has been more common, both in mainstream environmentalism as well as the growing techno-optimistic side of the left, for this foundational premise to lead towards hopes for technological fixes that can “decouple” the American way of life from its negative climatological impacts. [http://societyandspace.org/2019/08/08/the-eco-fascism-of-the-el-paso-shooter-haunts-the-techo-optimism-of-the-left/](http://societyandspace.org/2019/08/08/the-eco-fascism-of-the-el-paso-shooter-haunts-the-techo-optimism-of-the-left/)

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Another article on this: The environmentalism of this manifesto begins with an assertion that is not unique to the far-right: Americans are not willing to change their ecologically destructive way of life, therefore any viable climate solution must proceed accordingly. It has been more common, both in mainstream environmentalism as well as the growing techno-optimistic side of the left, for this foundational premise to lead towards hopes for technological fixes that can “decouple” the American way of life from its negative climatological impacts. [http://societyandspace.org/2019/08/08/the-eco-fascism-of-the-el-paso-shooter-haunts-the-techo-optimism-of-the-left/](http://societyandspace.org/2019/08/08/the-eco-fascism-of-the-el-paso-shooter-haunts-the-techo-optimism-of-the-left/)