Tag Archives: environmentalism

The Politics of Meat:
An Ecofascist Perspective

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Jef Costello’s recent articles concerning the “Carnivore Diet” inspired me to ponder a subject that I had neglected for some time: the ethics and politics of diet.

Midsummer

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I have returned, for a time, to the lakes and forests where I spent my childhood summers.

Returned to the knotted post oaks and the impenetrable blackjack pines, to the dense undergrowth and brambles, to the thick forests echoing with the song Read more …

Published: June 22, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, childhood, coming of age, ecology, modernity, North American New Right, originals, reflection, urbanization, why we write, William de Vere | 5 Responses

The Birds
Or: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Coronavirus (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock & Heidegger), Part Five

Derek Hawthorne

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Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

In the last installment, I began to explore the possibility that The Birds can be understood as an “existentialist” parable. I argued that the film depicts what Heidegger calls das Ereignis (the event): a sudden and fundamental transformation of the meaning of everything. Read more …

Published: June 3, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alfred Hitchcock, apocalypse, articles, being, complacency, das Ereignis, Dasein, Derek Hawthorne, die Lichtung, hubris, knowledge, Martin Heidegger, modernism, mortality, nature, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, scientism, The Birds, the uncanny | 8 Responses

Twelve Monkeys

Trevor Lynch

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Twelve Monkeys (1995) is Terry Gilliam’s last great movie. It is a masterful work of dystopian science fiction, with a highly imaginative plot, a tight and literate script, fantastic steampunkish sets and props, and compelling performances from Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt, and Madeleine Stowe. Gilliam is usually far too ironic and self-conscious to deliver emotionally satisfying work. But in Twelve Monkeys, we see stylistic elements and themes from earlier Gilliam films Read more …

Published: June 1, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, movie reviews, North American New Right, psychology, reprints, Trevor Lynch | 3 Responses

The Real Cost of a Traffic Jam

Winston E. Bakewell

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I will preface this by saying that this year, you’re most likely not struck in traffic. We owe a great big “thank you” to the ‘rona for making Earth Day 2020 a rousing success. It’s positively alpine out there!

In normal times, however, it’s highly likely that a majority of you jump into a car in the morning, crawl your way towards a workplace of some kind on a slab of freeway, Read more …

Published: April 22, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, diversity, Earth Day, ecology, economics, North American New Right, originals, taxation, urbanism, white dispossesion, white flight, Winston E. Bakewell | 9 Responses

Ecofascism Resurgent

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While mankind suffers through the worst global crisis in recent memory, the rest of the world appears to be benefiting from our discomfiture.

The quarantines, travel bans, and economic stagnation brought about by COVID-19 have had a number of unintended consequences for the natural environment: improvements in air quality resulting from the reduction of major pollutants such as nitrous oxide and greenhouse gases; cleaner waterways (most famously the canals of Venice); and the return of wildlife to humanized landscapes. Read more …

Published: April 22, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, capitalism, consumerism, coronavirus, COVID-19, deep ecology, Earth Day, Earth First, ecofascism, ecology, industrialization, materialism, misanthropy, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, Pentti Linkola, Savitri Devi, socialism, William de Vere | 21 Responses

Earth Day Special

John Morgan

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Today is Earth Day, which has been an occasion to call for conservationism and environmental protection since it was first celebrated in America with bipartisan support in 1970, in response to the Santa Barbara oil spill of 1969. Although in recent decades, environmentalism has come to be identified with the political Left, taking stewardship of the Earth and seeking harmony in the relationship between man and nature has traditionally been an issue of the Right. Read more …

Published: April 22, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged animal rights, articles, commemorations, deep ecology, Earth Day, ecology, John Morgan, North American New Right, reprints | 2 Responses

Remembering Pentti Linkola
December 7, 1932 — April 5, 2020

Timo Hännikäinen

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Like other Nordic countries, Finland has a strong conformist mentality. The Law of Jante is in force to keep too headstrong or conflict-seeking individuals in leash. In this respect, it is strange that one of the modern Finnish cultural icons is a character as extreme as Pentti Linkola. Read more …

Published: April 7, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, ecology, Finland, North American New Right, originals, Pentti Linkola, Timo Hännikäinen | 6 Responses

The WASP in the Wilderness

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Despite their many social ills, one might judge the decades prior to World War I to be the last period of sanity in the West. It was truly the last epoch in American history in which the values of old Europe still held any sway, when criticism of modernity by men of the Right still exerted some influence, and when ancestral traditions of dignity and civic responsibility were still in force among the old families. It was a time when anxieties about the rising power of the underclass and the preservation of America’s political, cultural, and natural heritage were paramount. Read more …

Published: March 16, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, ecology, North American New Right, originals, subversion, urbanization, WASPs, William de Vere | 8 Responses

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 258
A Conversation with Laura Towler

Counter-Currents Radio

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Greg Johnson talks to English video-maker, writer, and activist Laura Towler about her work and ideas. Topics include:

0:00: Introduction
3:25: Laura’s intellectual/political journey

Published: January 31, 2020 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Counter-Currents Radio, feminism, free speech, global warming, interviews, Laura Towler, Mark Collett, podcasts, rape | 20 Responses

Leftward Drift & Radical Ecology:
The Tragedy of Earth First!, Part 2

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Murray the Hegelian

Part 2 of 2; part 1 here

With the early successes of Earth First! came the envious spite typical of the doctrinaire Left — who, despite their constant denunciations of ugly noxious screeds are themselves often quite guilty on that score. The opening salvo was fired by Murray Bookchin, a bloviating Hegelian from Vermont (by way of New York City). This was a man whose vituperative style and all-around prickliness eventually led even his own disciples to concede that he set back the cause of the American ecology movement for decades. Read more …

Published: January 10, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, deep ecology, Earth First, entryism, leftism, North American New Right, reprints, William de Vere | 7 Responses

Leftward Drift & Radical Ecology:
The Tragedy of Earth First!, Part 1

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Part 1 of 2; part 2 here

While its current champions would have us believe that political ecology is the exclusive domain of the Left, and often fret about the specter of entryism by racists and crypto-fascists into their struggle for world liberation, a cursory glance at the history of ecological thought reveals the opposite to be true. Read more …

Published: January 9, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, deep ecology, Earth First, leftism, North American New Right, reprints, William de Vere | 6 Responses

Honoring Pentti Linkola

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Finnish “eco-fascist” Pentti Linkola turns 87 today. Along with Savitri Devi, Linkola is one of the few figures in the post-War ecological movement to take openly Right-wing positions, rejecting liberal egalitarianism and democracy and advocating eugenics.

Published: December 7, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, deep ecology, eco-fascism, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, Pentti Linkola | 10 Responses

Remembering Henry Williamson:
December 1, 1895 to August 13, 1977

Henry Williamson

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In commemoration of the birthday of the great English novelist, ecologist, and racial nationalist Henry Williamson, I wish to draw your attention to some articles on this site:

“Henry Williamson: Nature’s Visionary” by Mark Deavin
“Henry Williamson” by Kerry Bolton, now expanded (also available in Bolton’s Artists of the Right)
“Henry Williamson, George Orwell, and the Pigs” by Margot Metroland
“Henry Williamson and T. E. Lawrence,” by Margot Metroland

Published: December 1, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, ecology, Greg Johnson, Henry Williamson, literature, North American New Right, originals | 1 Response

Ecology Viewed from the Right

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Whatever its contemporary associations, the natural home of political ecology lies on the Right – not the false Right associated with the Republican Party in America, of course, whose conservatism is little more than a desperate and self-destructive attachment to the liberal principles of the Enlightenment, but what Julius Evola has called the True Right: Read more …

Published: November 29, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged animal rights, articles, ecology, modernism, North American New Right, originals, progressivism, True Right, William de Vere | 12 Responses

Greta & Left vs. Right Environmentalism

Richard Houck

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I saw a recent photo of Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist, and the poor thing looked quite ragged. Just run down. I felt deep sympathy for her. She’s right: Her childhood is being stolen, and people are indeed suffering. I hope she makes it.

She is often mocked and ridiculed – sometimes relentlessly – by the Right, but I feel this is misplaced anger, and that Greta is not being viewed with nuance. Read more …

Published: October 28, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, deep ecology, North American New Right, originals, overpopulation, Richard Houck | 27 Responses

Ten Questions for Radical Environmentalist Derrick Jensen, Part II

Hubert Collins

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Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)

Ten Questions for Radical Environmentalist Derrick Jensen, Part I

Hubert Collins

Derrick Jensen

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Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here)

Derrick Jensen, the hardcore and prolific Green activist, is easily one of the most interesting public intellectuals of our time. His willingness to take ideas to their logical end point – and make no apology for it – keeps him from being easily categorized. Read more …

Published: October 18, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, biocentrism, deep ecology, eco-fascism, extinction, gender politics, Hubert Collins, industrialization, interviews, Left-Right dichotomy, localism, natural resources, North American New Right, originals, overpopulation, postmodernism, technology, transgenderism | 18 Responses

Remembering Savitri Devi:
September 30, 1905–October 22, 1982

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Savitri Devi was a philosopher, a religious thinker, and a tireless polemicist and activist for the causes of animal rights, European pagan revivalism, Hindu nationalism, German National Socialism, and — after the Second World War — pan-European racial nationalism.She also sought to found a religion, Esoteric Hitlerism, fusing National Socialism with the Traditionalism of René Guénon and Julius Evola. All told, she was one of the most extraordinary personalities of the 20th century. Read more …

Published: September 30, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged ecology, Esoteric Hitlerism, Greg Johnson, National Socialism, North American New Right, North American New Right and tagged articles, originals, philosophy, Savitri Devi, Traditionalism, white nationalism | 9 Responses

Apocalypse Now, Part 3

Fenek Solère

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Part 3 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here)

Then, after a while, there were too many poor. Altogether too many. Folk you didn’t even know . . . Swarming all over . . . spreading through cities, houses and homes. Worming their way by the thousands, in thousands of foolproof ways. Read more …

Published: September 2, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Fenek Solère, Jean Raspail, mass immigration, migrant crisis, North American New Right, originals, overpopulation, The Camp of the Saints, the great replacement | 3 Responses

Answering Normie Questions, Part 2:
“White Supremacism” & “White Privilege”

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Part 2 of 5 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here)

JM: That brings me to another question. As you were saying, having a culture and civilization, I would argue, that is one of the better ones in the world, leads to the claim of “white supremacy” being flung around. Read more …

Published: August 12, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, ethnostates, Greg Johnson, Karl Thorburn, multiculturalism, NoMoreDogma, North American New Right, originals, transcripts, white nationalism, white privilege, white supremacism | 6 Responses

Toward a Right-Wing Environmentalism

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The following is the transcript of an interview with Greg Johnson that was conducted on The Current Year Report in late June of 2017. The original audio is here. The transcription was made by James B. and Tyler Harding. Read more …

Published: June 24, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged deep ecology, Greg Johnson, interviews, podcasts, the left | 8 Responses

Being Bill McKibben

Mitch Smith

Bill McKibben

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In 1989, young scientist Bill McKibben published the seminal climate change book, The End of Nature. It made him an instant star in the environmental sciences, and in the literary world as well.

Like it did with so many of my generation, the book had a profound effect on me. Among other things, I never forgot the analogy that if the earth was the size of a basketball, the depth of our atmosphere would be the equivalent of a coat of paint. The air we breath, the sky we see … it is not nearly so infinite as it seems.

Published: May 16, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, climate change, Mitch Smith, North American New Right, originals | 14 Responses

Earth Day Special

John Morgan

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Published: April 22, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged animal rights, articles, deep ecology, Earth Day, eco-fascism, ecology, North American New Right, originals | 10 Responses

Honoring Pentti Linkola

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Finnish “eco-fascist” Pentti Linkola turns 86 today. Along with Savitri Devi, Linkola is one of the few figures in the post-War ecological movement to take openly Right-wing positions, rejecting liberal egalitarianism and democracy and advocating eugenics.

Published: December 7, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, deep ecology, eco-fascism, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, Pentti Linkola | 2 Responses

Now in Audio Version!
British Politics Today:
Optimism, Pessimism, & Realism

Michael Walker

Theresa May trying (and failing) to be the multicultural Dancing Queen, a clear case of too much optimism.

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Counter-Currents readers may be familiar with the name Tai Lopez. Tai Lopez runs commercials which regularly appear on YouTube. He is a self-made millionaire and latter-day preacher of the “God helps those who help themselves” school of economics: Read more …

Published: October 15, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Brexit, British politics, Conservative Party, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party, Michael Walker, North American New Right, optimism, originals, pessimism, populism, realism, Theresa May, UKIP, United Kingdom | 5 Responses

Remembering Savitri Devi:
September 30, 1905–October 22, 1982

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Published: September 30, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, ecology, Esoteric Hitlerism, Greg Johnson, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Savitri Devi, Traditionalism, white nationalism | 4 Responses

Now in Audio Version!
Environmentalism & White Nationalism:
A Shared Destiny

Michael Walker

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Andreas Meißner
Mensch, was nun? Wie wir der ökologischen Krise begegnen können
Münster: Edition Octopus, 2009 Read more …

Published: September 10, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, ecology, economic policy, Michael Walker, North American New Right, originals, white nationalism | 9 Responses