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October 2014

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On Ecological Realism

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This week I want to respond to Sonja Sonnerström’s article on ecological fundamentalism here on Social Matter. I find that this topic gets overlooked in neoreactionary discourse so I’m glad someone got the ball rolling. When I’ve spoken about it, I’ve encountered two kinds of responses. The first is a knee-jerk negative reaction to the topic of the environment. I consider this a vestige from “conservative base” culture (think #tcot and #rednationrising). The Left adopted environmentalism as a cause; thus, conservatives adopt anti-environmentalist rhetoric as a cause. It’s signalling all the way down. The second is a willingness to engage the topic beyond political […]