Seeds of Extremism: Ecofascism and Militant Accelerationism in a Warming World
| by Isabela Bernardo
Climate change and violent extremism represent two of the most significant challenges confronting contemporary global security. Yet their intersection, and particularly the specific mechanisms through which extremist ideologies exploit environmental crises for recruitment, mobilization, and justification of violence, has received insufficient integrated analysis connecting ideological, tactical, and structural dimensions.
This gap carries significant consequences: as climate impacts accelerate and environmental anxieties intensify, movements positioned to exploit these dynamics gain expanded opportunities for radicalization, while counterterrorism and conflict transformation efforts operate without an adequate understanding of the ideological architectures they confront.
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