Gonna do a class lecture about ecofascism. If you have good suggestions for readings, send them my way. Not this one.
Reminder that population-bombers/ecofascists don't get to be a part of the climate solutions community. So, bye.
this article is good and has a bunch of other article recommendations in the endnotes. https://twitter.com/hausfath/status/1327842310734848001?s=20
Here's another good one, by @mmildenberger. This article should rise from a cloud of smoke in the room anytime someone mentions the tragedy of the commons https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/the-tragedy-of-the-tragedy-of-the-commons/
The Tragedy of the Tragedy of the Commons

The man who wrote one of environmentalism’s most-cited essays was a racist, eugenicist, nativist and Islamaphobe—plus his argument was wrong

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/the-tragedy-of-the-tragedy-of-the-commons/
More:

"The Menace of Eco-Fascism", NYRB, 2018: https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/10/22/the-menace-of-eco-fascism/

"Watch out for this symptom of Corona virus: lazy ecofascism", by @KetanJ0, 2020: https://ketanjoshi.co/2020/03/20/watch-out-for-this-symptom-of-corona-virus-lazy-ecofascism/
Watch out for this symptom of Corona virus: lazy ecofascism

Where there is smoke, there is fire. And where there is misinformation, there is feeling. One key thing I have learnt from my time in climate and energy is that if someone is skipping skepticism an…

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/10/22/the-menace-of-eco-fascism/
More:

"Whose Utopia? American Ecofascism Since the 1880s", Edge Effects, 2019: https://edgeeffects.net/ecofascism/ 

"Neoecofascism: The Example of the United States." Journal for the Study of Radicalism, 2020: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.14321/jstudradi.14.2.0095?seq=1
Whose Utopia? American Ecofascism Since the 1880s

A 19th-century novel about a (white) women's utopia at the center of the earth documents the long history of American ecofascism.

https://edgeeffects.net/ecofascism/
Here's one of many pieces correctly dunking on the population bomb, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/book-incited-worldwide-fear-overpopulation-180967499/
The Book That Incited a Worldwide Fear of Overpopulation

'The Population Bomb' made dire predictions—and triggered a wave of repression around the world

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/book-incited-worldwide-fear-overpopulation-180967499/
👇 https://twitter.com/Prof_FSultana/status/1327998386231005185?s=20
reminder that if you're part of a group that emphasizes "right-sizing" population for the sake of the "climate", you're, uh, not in a group that cares about climate change and the group is bad & you should leave it
another important reading: Weaponizing vulnerability to climate change, GEC, 2019. "The worst mode weaponizes vulnerability by construing vulnerable people as threats." That about sums it up👇 https://twitter.com/kmac/status/1327940923393675264?s=20
More: 👇 https://twitter.com/LubardaB/status/1327986593840439296?s=20
these are just some really brilliant voices for bold climate action that also push back on the ecofascism garbage on here all the time, and you should follow these great folks: @Prof_FSultana, @TricksyRaccoon, @KetanJ0, @kmac, @arvindpawan1
Looking for a thread to start learning about all this? Prof. @arvindpawan1's is a must-read: https://twitter.com/arvindpawan1/status/1192441405580468224?s=20
Another important piece👇 https://twitter.com/OlufemiOTaiwo/status/1328019104498855938?s=20
From @KateAronoff: "The climate crisis is the foundation on which the politics of the 21st century will be built. The xenophobic right is beginning to catch on to what an opportunity this crisis represents for them..." https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/the-european-far-rights-environmental-turn
The European Far Right's Environmental Turn | Dissent Magazine

As climate change becomes a central concern for voters across the continent, right-wing parties are beginning to incorporate green politics into their ethno-nationalist vision.

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/the-european-far-rights-environmental-turn
more 👇 https://twitter.com/PaulRobbins15/status/1328024280261664768?s=20
workshop notes on indigenous practices and co-innovation https://twitter.com/matrotz/status/1328025242091073536?s=20
a lecture from @HannahEDaly featuring GapMinder founder Hans Rosling: https://twitter.com/HannahEDaly/status/1328027401096482824?s=20
when @DoctorVive gives a book recommendation, we go buy it: https://bookshop.org/books/down-to-earth-politics-in-the-new-climatic-regime/9781509530571 https://twitter.com/DoctorVive/status/1328023684100059136?s=20
podcast featuring @Leigh_Phillips: https://twitter.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1328024188532101120?s=20
check out Leigh's book ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26211742-austerity-ecology-the-collapse-porn-addicts) and also this: https://twitter.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1328038473404534785?s=20
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