RT Article
T1 Environmentalism on the American Extreme Right
JF Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
VO 18
IS 3
SP 413
OP 429
A1 Barkun, Michael 1938-
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/189071383X
AB American right-wing extremists have rarely explicitly stated environmental policies. However, they have exhibited implicit environmentalism. It has resulted from a fusion of three factors: an intense distaste for cities; a belief in the supremacy of small social and governmental units; and the self-sufficiency known as survivalism. These result in a romantic nostalgia for an agrarian, pre-industrial past when current environmental problems did not exist. The most extreme extension of this mode of thinking is the radical right's belief in the creation of a "white homeland" in the Pacific Northwest. Religion does not affect the character of the implicit environmentalism surveyed here but is evident in extremists' millenarian or utopian ideas about the future.
K1 Environmentalism
K1 Extremism
K1 Nativism
K1 Radical right
K1 Survivalism
K1 White homeland
DO 10.1558/jsrnc.23702