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Regarding the TOTW discussion:

I think that the scenario of Eco-Fascism becoming a prominent feature in the coming years as the right cynically embraces environmental and climate concerns for political gain is much less likely than what I think will be the greater trend: bare-faced jingoistic extractivism (a la Trump and Bolsonaro) on both sides, right, left and center (think of Trudeau and pipelines and fracking).

Any politician in most of the world can just stand up and hold a smartphone in their hands and say "are you going to stop using these? didn't think so." and keep on churning what they need to keep electricity, wifi, water and a steady stream of products into their homes. Even politicians in places more directly affected by intensive industries and extractivism like in South America and China etc. can pull that rhetoric and those policies off with no effective opposition. In other places the only rhetoric is and will be that of drones bombing and machines drilling, boring, grinding and hauling.

Eco-fascism will never have as much appeal or political effectiveness as real life Techno-Democratic-Capitalism (three terms sound redundant). In fact, I think the term is for the most part mobilized as a tool serving the interests of the latter.