Posted on 08/19/2019 5:50:53 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
The alleged Christchurch shooter, who is charged with targeting Muslims and killing 51 people in March, declared himself an "eco-fascist" and railed about immigrants' birthrates. The statement linked to the El Paso shooter, who is charged with killing 22 people in a shopping area earlier this month, bemoans water pollution, plastic waste and an American consumer culture that is "creating a massive burden for future generations."
The two mass shootings appear to be extreme examples of ecofascism - what Hampshire College professor emeriti Betsy Hartmann calls "the greening of hate."
...These ideas have shown themselves to be particularly dangerous when adopted by unstable individuals prone to violence and convinced they must take drastic actions to stave off catastrophe.
...Environmental activists want to create a sense of urgency about climate change, the loss of biodiversity and other insults to the natural world, but they don't want their messages to drive people into deranged ideologies.
There is a danger of "apocalypticism," said Jon Christensen, an adjunct assistant professor at the University of California at Los Angeles who has written extensively on the use and misuse of dystopian environmental scenarios.
Ecofascism has deep roots. There is a strong element of it in the Nazi emphasis on "blood and soil," and the fatherland, and the need for a living space purified of alien and undesirable elements.
Meanwhile, leaders of mainstream environmental groups are quick to acknowledge their movement has an imperfect history when it comes to race, immigration and inclusiveness. Some early conservationists embraced the eugenics movement that saw "social Darwinism" as a way of improving the human race by limiting the birthrates of people considered inferior.
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Look at popular literature and movies.
The biggest movie last year, Avengers: Infinity War, had a blatant Enviro-Murder theme.
But that is not the only movie or book.
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six springs to mind. But there are many others.
I think the Norway shooter was the same sort of nutbar!
I don't remember that. I know he was also anti-immigrant. I do know that, like the other two, he also was a Godless Atheist. Which kind of makes sense - these types of people are nihilists. In their universe there is no God (outside of themselves). No Judgement. And people are merely somewhat more evolved animals. I.e., not men and women made in the image of a Thrice Holy God.
Remove the belief in God from society - and this void gets filled with all kinds of noxious, and satanic, philosophies.
They ignore the fact that this anti-human attitude is part and parcel of the movement from the beginning.
It is why you routinely see post-apocalyptic stories where someone has created a virus to kill 90-99.9% of humanity for the sake of the planet. “Rainbow Six” wasn’t unique in that regard, only unusual for being conservative.
This same theme - we’d have paradise if we just killed off everyone but the true believers - pops up in academic lectures where they wish we could sterilize or kill nearly everyone.
Empty half the Earth of its humans. It’s the only way to save the planet
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/mar/20/save-the-planet-half-earth-kim-stanley-robinson
I can’t find a link to the guy Reason reported on in 2006 who said he wished he’d return as a virus to kill 90-99% of humanity. He was a professor at University of Texas, I think. And they CHEERED him.
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