Explained | History of ecofascism—ideology of the Buffalo shooting suspect
The HinduThe story so far: Ten people were killed and three were injured when an 18-year-old armed man opened fire at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York on Saturday in a racially-motivated attack that he live-streamed. In The Threat of Ecofascism, environmental historian Michael E. Zimmerman defines ecofascism as a radical movement that calls for “ecologically vital private property to be protected from those who despoil it”, and depicts ecological despoilation as a threat to the racial integrity of people. Mr. Zimmerman also adds that if ecofascism were to occur, it is likely that it will be in countries that already have a long-term sense of national identity that could be construed as “racial”. “In my view, much of the coverage of the Buffalo attack has failed to look at the longer historical context, which I think is essential to understanding shocking events like these” said Dr. Staudenmaier. “The environmental passages in the Buffalo perpetrator’s manifesto were lifted verbatim from the 2019 Christchurch manifesto, itself an amalgamation of disparate beliefs swirling around on the contemporary radical right.
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