Toward Ecosophy

Didn’t you recently say you’re 50-ish? You sound about 18.

I sound really strange, because I had viral pneumonia in high school and damaged my vocal cords coughing and they never healed up right. Nobody ever guesses my age right on the phone.

As you described them, groups calling for the political organizations of 30's Europe.

Besides the obvious effect of antagonizing those who don't want fascism towards ecology in general, I think there's another equally dangerous side to the conflation of ecology and fascism: people who were considering subscribing to it can now get the benefit of "leaves on the package" that brands use to market their products.

Not only is ecofascism bad for ecology as a movement, but it's also good for fascism itself!

JP

Rupert Darwall proves that Nazis are environmentalists, and that therefore (presumably) environmentalists are Nazis:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q__pKHXfi-k

Interestingly, this interview appears to come from a conservative standpoint.

Kevin

The writ was just dropped for Canada's federal election on October 12, and there is a surreal thing going on with the NDP (democratic socialists) going gloves off after the Green Party for racism. About everything. It's never been something someone has lobbed at them before to my recollection. The NDP had of course been slowly imploding for a decade, and had now reached a point they have only half their running candidates seats, and still feel entitled to The Left Vote. Meanwhile the Greens have been winning seats in by-elections, have a full slate, and are polling third place (with the big two centrist and right wing parties, the Liberals and Conservatives, respectively, jockeying for first and second). I'm sure that is not the real issue, though 😉

So far no one has been accused of ecofascism, but I'm starting to wonder if it's only a matter of time. It's too bad, I met the NDP leader Singh, and really liked his speech, i thought it sounded like he Got It on class issues, or at least his writer did. I don't like they'll take him down with them.

I told a NDP member friend I'd also met my riding candidate for the Conservatives at an indigenous function, and had lunch with him, and he seemed like a good guy, wanting to get back to traditional party values instead of the creepy social conservatism. Wouldn't be devastating if he somehow upended May in our riding. I'm a Green party member, but a local non party affiliated politician, so I know trying to find political alliances and compromises is really important to getting work done - but he recoiled and said too bad I endorsed a fascist. Uhhh,small Conservative government is the literal opposite of totalitarian fascism? We were jamming about common values across party lines and his pro bono family law work...opposite of repression of political dissent and being awful? Indigenous reconciliation function? He just blinked at me.

The media hasn't really taken the racism bait - they cover it, but they're not driving it - but it's the party lay supporters, especially - even perhaps exclusively - the white men I know, just frothing about it. Why the men in particular?