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      What Could Carbofascism Look Like? A Historical Perspective on Reactionary Politics in the COVID-19 Pandemic

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      Journal for the History of Environment and Society
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          Political reactions to the COVID-19 crisis in the USA, Brazil and elsewhere have revealed the power of a proto-ideology which articulates environmental destruction with the sacrifice of human health to preserve a segregationist project of modernity. This essay suggests that this political trend which denies ecological connections and promotes a carbon intensive society could correspond to the notion of ´carbofascism´, coined by the environmental historian J.-B. Fressoz. It addresses this trend in a historical perspective to discuss its ideological filiation with past fascisms and provide a hypothesis for the causes of its emergence. Carbofascism is possibly a product of the deep historical entwinement of modern democratic regimes with anthropocentric principles and the growth of fossil fuels. The coronavirus pandemic represents a turning point in which the integrity of human and non-human life is tested against the lingering toxicity of our patterns of energy dependency, making the transformation of carbon democracy into ecodemocracy urgent.

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                Journal
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                JHES
                jhes
                Journal for the History of Environment and Society
                Brepols Publishers
                2506-6730
                2506-6749
                January 2020
                : 5
                : 135-148
                Article
                10.1484/J.JHES.5.122470
                e2be9bbf-e6f2-4116-87d7-79d7ed3b00c4

                Open-access

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                Agricultural ecology,Environmental change,Environmental studies,General social science,General environmental science,Urban, Rural & Regional economics

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