I think we’d best beware of the “fascism” that we already have! Trump is using the COVID-19 pandemic to relax environmental standards for industries as it is. If anything, we’re going in a totally opposite direction than what this suggests. Our once-relevant Environmental Protection Agency has been mostly hijacked early on by the Trump administration. Andrew Wheeler, the present EPA head, worked previously as a coal industry lobbyist, and Trump’s first appointed head was a climate change denier. So it’s unlikely that we are headed for “ecofascism” any time soon. You know, there are at least two extremes, and there’s such a thing as doing things right and for the right reason. And it’s not impossible to do so.
—Danny Comer, via Facebook
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Fascism is already here.
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