Image: from “The Dark Side of Environmentalism: Ecofascism and COVID-19.”

Books

Janet Biehl & Peter Staudenmaier: Ecofascism Revisited: Lessons from the German Experience.

Sam Moore & Alex Roberts: The Rise of Ecofascism: Climate Change and the Far Right.

Peter Staudenmeier: Ecology Contested: Environmental Politics between Left and Right.

Articles

Amarnath Amarasingam, Brian Hughes, & Dave Jones: Ecofascism: An Examination of the Far-Right/Ecology Nexus in the Online Space.

Adryan Corcione: Eco-fascism: What It Is, Why It’s Wrong, and How to Fight It. Some on the far right are adopting xenophobic, racist ideas about what’s causing climate change.

Elaina Hancock: A Darker Shade of Green: Understanding Ecofascism. A UConn expert explains how environmentalist ideas can be weaponized in pursuit of a fascist political agenda.

Alexandra Minna Stern: White nationalists’ extreme solution to the coming environmental apocalypse.

NPR: The far-right and environmentalism overlap is bigger than you think — and growing.

Tess Owen: White Nationalists Want to Reclaim Nature as a Safe Space for Racists: White supremacy groups have deep roots in the U.S. wilderness and recreation movements, going all the way back to the creation of the National Park System. (See also this related Twitter thread.)

The Sierra Club: Eco-Fascism, Uncovered: El Paso, Texas, witnessed the first violent outburst of US eco-fascism—and is also a living rebuttal to the hateful ideology.

See also: Resources on Far Right Extremism.