Up Next - Neo-Nazis As "Environmentalists" - Even Ann Coulter Is Apparently Willing To Play

The white man charged with killing 22 people in El Paso on Saturday is believed to be the author of a racist “manifesto” posted shortly before the shooting rampage. The hate-filled screed described a “Hispanic invasion of Texas” and warned that white Americans are being “replaced” by foreigners. The manifesto also sounded a growing theme in far-right rhetoric: that nonwhite people are responsible for environmental problems ranging from litter to climate change. Although the manifesto didn’t explicitly refer to climate change, its author titled the four-page document “The Inconvenient Truth,” seemingly a reference to Al Gore’s campaign to raise awareness about global warming.

The forced marriage of white supremacy and environmentalism is not new (Adolf Hitler, for one, advocated both racial and environmental purity), but once again it is birthing ugly “solutions,” from shunning refugees to ethnic cleansing. Even those on the far right who don’t “believe” in climate change are happy to jump on the environmental bandwagon. As the far-right author and media pundit Ann Coulter tweeted last year, “I’m fine with pretending to believe in global warming if we can save our language, culture & borders.”

In an article about white nationalists discovering the environment, The Atlantic explains the manifesto writer’s mentality:

The American lifestyle is destroying the environment, the author declares. But the answer is not to ask native-born white Americans to change their ways. It is to rid the country of Latinos.

It is not brown-skinned immigrants who are primarily responsible for environmental degradation, though. In fact, climate change and other environmental crises are driving migration, not the other way around. As The Atlantic reminds readers, “Large corporations and the wealthy consume the most environmental resources, not poor immigrants.”

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https://thebulletin.org/2019/08/white-nationalisms-solution-to-climate-change-fewer-brown-people/