[Image description: Digital art made to mimic pencil and charcoal on paper. It shows two men in heavy overcoats and hats walking through a snowy landscape, with stars and an Aurora overhead, and a tallship in the background. Text reads, “Tho’ countless stars may gem the sky, For all the world to see; You only are, my guiding star, and ever more shalt be.” End ID]
nonspecific cold boys and an adorably cheesy poem (from a christmas cracker used during the Terra Nova expedition, now held by SPRI)
my theory is that reincarnation is real and that’s why everything is so fucked up. we got too many people on earth and their souls were supposed to spend a few more cycles as endangered animals or smthn but we fucked the environment and overpopulated. so we get guys who was SUPPOSED to be black-footed ferrets or whatever til their soul reached maturity but instead they’re like, influencers and politicians. this is also why furries exist.
This is just repackaged ecofascism, and it’s really important you recognise it when you see it and don’t uncritically share it
“Eco-fascism argues that humans are overburdening the planet and that some populations are more of a problem than others.”
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“The ordinary person might be unaware that they’re partaking in it, all the while spreading views like the belief that immigration is the cause of the climate crisis, without realising that this theory has a history of eugenics and population control.”
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“At the core of eco-fascism is an ideology that blames the demise of the environment on overpopulation, immigration and over industrialisation, problems that followers believe could be solved through the mass murder of people in the Global South. They use the climate crisis as a veneer for racist beliefs.”
“Although the wealthy minority is fuelling the climate crisis, marginalised communities suffer disproportionately, and eco-fascists place the blame almost entirely on poor people (particularly of colour).”
The post may or may not be intended as a joke, but by accepting core concepts like overpopulation and the idea that there is a natural order being violated by certain humans being born, you are being desensitized to the language that ecofascism uses to justify violent, racist actions and beliefs. By normalising this language and these concepts you are (often even unintentionally) contributing to opening the doors for these people to slowly shift the online discourse around environmentalism towards their beliefs and making yourself vulnerable to falling down this rabbit hole of (eco-)fascist beliefs yourself.
