In this episode, I speak with anti-racist and environmental activist Hilary Moore, author of Burning Earth, Changing Europe: How the Racist Right Exploits the Climate Crisis–And What We Can Do About It, and co-author of No Fascist USA! The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements.

In her booklet Burning Earth, Changing Europe, Hilary examines how right wing ideology, in its various forms, reacts to, co-opts, and inserts its agendas into the discourse and activism surrounding climate change and environmentalism at large. As she points to in this interview: 

1. Climate change is not an inherently progressive issue.

2. How you think and talk about climate change may prop up racist right-wing positions.

3. The far right does not need to govern to influence.

With these truths in mind, Hilary points to how social justice itself must be central to any environmental and climate movement.

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