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US POLITICAL RIGHT PRACTICES NEW LINES IN CLIMATE DENIAL

the political right in the US has begun to trot out new ‘debating’ points, noting that climate denial is waning, according to a report in The Guardian.

but what replaces it might be just as scary, US environment correspondent Oliver Milman wrote.

”This wrapping of ecological disaster with fears of rampant immigration is a narrative that has flourished in far-right fringe movements in Europe and the US and is now spilling into the discourse of mainstream politics,” he said.

Simply ignoring or disparaging the science isn’t the effective political weapon it once was, he said..

”‘We are seeing very, very little climate denialism in conversations on the right now,’ said Catherine Fieschi, a political analyst and founder of Counterpoint, who tracks trends in populist discourse.

“But in place of denial is a growing strain of environmental populism that has attempted to dovetail public alarm over the climate crisis with disdain for ruling elites, longing for a more traditional embrace of nature and kin and calls to banish immigrants behind strong borders.”