Another Ecofascist Murder Spree

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By Olivia Pierson
[First published on INSIGHT at the BFD 6/8/19]
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The El Paso shooter, 21-year-old Patrick Crusius, who went on a murder spree at a local Walmart over the weekend, leaving 20 people dead and many more horribly injured, is being described by media as an anti-immigrant, white supremacist. But his supposed manifesto speaks to a crime committed in order to help save the planet and the environment.  Another ecofascist strikes.
 
Brenton Tarrant, the Christchurch mass-killer, said of himself:

“I am an Ethno-nationalist Eco-fascist.”

What is an ecofascist again?  A person who believes fanatically that over-population is ruining the health of our planet’s environment, hastened by a culture of chronic, corporate-fuelled, greedy consumerism.  They think (some) humans need to be culled.

Crusius’ manifesto contained these words: 

“The American lifestyle affords our citizens an incredible quality of life. However, our lifestyle is destroying the environment of our country. The decimation of the environment is creating a massive burden for future generations… Fresh water is being polluted from farming and oil drilling operations. Consumer culture is creating thousands of tons of unnecessary plastic waste and electronic waste, and recycling to help slow this down is almost non-existent.”  

Far from being motivated by just anti-immigrant white supremacism, which the MSM are spinning hard in order to blame the shooter’s inspiration on President Trump’s so-called “racist rhetoric,” Crusius seems to have acted to help make America cleaner, greener and more sustainable, in his dastardly way. 

The manifesto continues:

“Corporations that also like immigration because more people means a bigger market for their products. I just want to say that I love the people of this country, but god damn most of y’all are just too stubborn to change your lifestyle. So the next logical step is to decrease the number of people in America using resources. If we can get rid of enough people, then our way of life can become more sustainable.”

Crusius took aim with a gun and randomly mowed down innocent people without any regard to their ethnicity, for not only Mexicans and Latinos died that day.  What his victims did have in common was that they were all out shopping, i.e, consuming at a big, corporate Walmart store.

It has long been a well-documented complaint of environmentalists that the world is becoming over-populated to the detriment of the planet because of the need to keep exploiting the earth’s resources while spoiling our oceans, rivers, streams – and the very climate itself.

Are men such as Crusius and Tarrant anti-immigrant racists?  Yes, I’m sure they are.  But they have also become infected with another form of extremism that very few people want to talk about, and that is environmentalist extremism: anti-capitalist, anti-industrial, anti-consumerist and anti-corporate.

This ‘green extremism’ has its historical genesis in the Nazi Party of the 1930s.
 
The Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex, a book by author Rupert Darwall, explains how the modern environmentalist movement was pre-figured in the Third Reich: 
 
“If you look at what the Nazis were doing in the 1930s, in their environmental policies, virtually every theme you see in the modern environmental movement, the Nazis were doing. It happens to be historical fact that the Nazis were the first political party in the world to have a wind power program. It also happens to be a fact that they were against meat eating, and they considered…it…terribly wasteful that so much grain went to feed livestock rather than to make bread. It’s also the case that they had the equivalent of fuel economy rules because they had the most expensive gasoline in Europe and so they basically had very few people driving cars […] I think actually the most extraordinary thing that I came across was this quote from Adolf Hitler where he told an aide once, ‘I’m not interested in politics. I’m interested in changing people’s lifestyles.’ That’s extraordinarily contemporary. That is what the modern environmental movement is all about. It’s about changing people’s lifestyles.” 

If we are going to talk about what motivates mass shooters of the ecofascist variety, it is nothing short of propaganda to merely label these nutters as “white supremacists.” 
 
There happens to be a much deeper layer of their motivation to kill innocent folks which needs to be exposed. But this is troublesome because it also happens to be a layer that is widely forced down the public’s throat by both those on the Left and the Right through widespread, extremist narratives about environmentalism and climate alarmism. These narratives are consistently telling us we are currently living through a man-made climate emergency that we only have twelve odd years to address before a massive natural cataclysm occurs which will destroy civilisation.  They are narratives that do not tolerate debate, nor dissent, which makes them highly dubious for that very fact alone.

In the case of Crusius and Tarrant, it is as if these young men have swallowed every form of extremist thought dished out to them by the hand of their culture – and the doom and gloom prophesies of green environmentalism, universally peddled by politicians and media, are certainly part of that malevolent web woven tightly in their minds. 

If radical Leftists and Greenies want to bleat on-and-on about a neo-nazi ideology which may be embedded in the minds of some mass-shooters, they need to be made to explain the neo-nazi anti-capitalist, anti-industrial and anti-corporate ideology embedded deeply within their own radical environmentalist politics and policies.

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