This concluding chapter synthesises key insights from the book on the far right’s engagement with environmental politics, with a focus on the aesthetic and ideological strategies used to reframe ecological concerns in ways that reinforce existing social and economic hierarchies. It explores how far-right actors appropriate symbols from romanticist myth, futurist fantasy, and anti-capitalist rhetoric to construct narratives that obscure the structural causes of climate crises while advancing ethnonationalist agendas. The discussion also examines the far right’s fluid and often contradictory stance on environmental policy, ranging from outright climate denial to advocating ecological protection as a means of reinforcing border security, economic protectionism, and accelerationist aspirations for societal collapse (the belief that precipitating social breakdown will enable the creation of a desired new order). Despite their rhetorical emphasis on self-sufficiency and localism, far-right movements across the spectrum remain deeply entangled with the global economic and technological systems they claim to reject. These movements depend on global supply chains, digital platforms, and transnational networks even while promoting isolationist ideologies. The chapter concludes by assessing how many far-right environmental narratives serve to obstruct meaningful climate action while reinforcing the very political and economic structures that drive environmental harm and deepen economic inequality.

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Far-Right Aesthetics in the Age of Global Heating

  • Imogen Richards

摘要

This concluding chapter synthesises key insights from the book on the far right’s engagement with environmental politics, with a focus on the aesthetic and ideological strategies used to reframe ecological concerns in ways that reinforce existing social and economic hierarchies. It explores how far-right actors appropriate symbols from romanticist myth, futurist fantasy, and anti-capitalist rhetoric to construct narratives that obscure the structural causes of climate crises while advancing ethnonationalist agendas. The discussion also examines the far right’s fluid and often contradictory stance on environmental policy, ranging from outright climate denial to advocating ecological protection as a means of reinforcing border security, economic protectionism, and accelerationist aspirations for societal collapse (the belief that precipitating social breakdown will enable the creation of a desired new order). Despite their rhetorical emphasis on self-sufficiency and localism, far-right movements across the spectrum remain deeply entangled with the global economic and technological systems they claim to reject. These movements depend on global supply chains, digital platforms, and transnational networks even while promoting isolationist ideologies. The chapter concludes by assessing how many far-right environmental narratives serve to obstruct meaningful climate action while reinforcing the very political and economic structures that drive environmental harm and deepen economic inequality.