NPR podcast explores how environmentalism overlaps with racism and Nazis
An NPR podcast spent their Thursday show exploring how environmentalism overlaps with racism and Nazis.
During the “Consider This” podcast, host Ari Shapiro and his guests had a discussion which was titled, “The Growing Overlap Between The Far-Right And Environmentalism. ” The pair explained connections between environmentalism and a violent white supremacist mindset.
“There’s this earlier, very nativist, very exclusionary, environmental thought. It was very much based on this idea of nature as a violent competitive hierarchical domain where, you know, White Europeans were at the top,” Blair Taylor, researcher at the Institute for Social Ecology, said.
Shapiro noted that Taylor’s research found “in some ways the environmental movement was founded on ideas of white supremacy.” Furthermore, there was even some connections to Nazism. – READ MORE
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