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"From Donald Trump in the United States and Javier Milei in Argentina to the far-right resurgence in many parts of Europe, the pattern is unmistakable: The convergence of ecological disaster, resource scarcity, a flagging and disoriented liberalism, and climate-driven displacement leads to an authoritarian turn."

~ Kohei Saito

#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #nature #environment #ClimateChange #capitalism #ecology
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https://www.thenation.com/article/society/free-gift-alyssa-battistoni-capitalism-enclosure-nature/

The Nation

How Capitalism Transformed the Natural World

In her new book, Alyssa Battistoni explores how nature came to be treated as a supposedly cost-free supplement of capital accumulation.

William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social · 22 hours ago

"Opening the area to mining 'removes the American public from public land decision making,' as hundreds of thousands of Americans have made it clear they overwhelmingly want the BWCAW protected forever."

#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #nature #environment #ClimateChange #capitalism #BoundaryWaters #Minnesota
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William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social · 22 hours ago

~ Kohei Saito

#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #nature #environment #ClimateChange #capitalism #ecology
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https://www.thenation.com/article/society/free-gift-alyssa-battistoni-capitalism-enclosure-nature/

The Nation

How Capitalism Transformed the Natural World

In her new book, Alyssa Battistoni explores how nature came to be treated as a supposedly cost-free supplement of capital accumulation.

William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social · 22 hours ago

"Nature itself has ceased to be a neutral backdrop to politics and has become instead a primary terrain of conflict—as seen in the fights over arable land and rare metals, in the inflation driven by crop failures and energy volatility, and in the desperate movements of climate refugees."

#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #nature #environment #ClimateChange #capitalism #ecology
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William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social · 22 hours ago

"In a world increasingly marked by 'climate barbarism'—a world in which floods, fires, and resource shortages fuel authoritarian responses rather than solidarity—this combined politics of nature and freedom [proposed by Alyssa Battistoni in her book Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature] might be the only sustainable alternative."

#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #nature #environment #ClimateChange #capitalism #ecology
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William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social · 22 hours ago

"[The choice] is between a politics that treats nature as a site of capital’s domination and a democratic politics that centers collective agency within our shared and fragile ecological conditions."

#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #nature #environment #ClimateChange #capitalism #ecology
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