What Happens When the Alt-Right Believes in Climate Change
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1652 ... August 17, 2018
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What Happens When the Alt-Right Believes in Climate Change
Casey Williams
Last September, as record-breaking hurricanes thrashed the Caribbean and southeastern U.S., the white nationalist magazine American Renaissance (AmRen) asked its readers a question: "What does it mean for whites if climate change is real?"
In its bombastic response, the magazine bucked two decades of conservative dogma to offer an ethno-nationalist take on planetary warming. Conceding that scientists might be right about climate change, it worried that shifting weather patterns could drive more black and brown people to the Global North, where whites will face a choice: stem the migrant tide, or die.
"The population explosion in the global south combined with climate change and liberal attitudes toward migration are the single greatest... external threat to Western civilization," AmRen wrote. "[It’s] more serious than Islamic terrorism or Hispanic illegal immigration."
The magazine’s editor-in-chief, influential white nationalist Jared Taylor, doubled down on AmRen’s position in an email to Jewish Currents. "If continued global change makes the poor, non-white parts of the world even more unpleasant to live in than they are now, it will certainly drive more non-whites north," Taylor said. "I make no apology for… urging white nations to muster the will to guard their borders and maintain white majorities."