Daniel Poohl is CEO of Expo foundation and a journalist specialising in far right extremism. In this talk, he examines why the majority of parties in the far right spectra denies climate change, despite the fact that many of them have been part of, or contained traces of, the green movement in the past. Poohl highlights an exemplifies how the complexity of far right movements must be understood.
'When the green movement started it was an anti-establishment movement. So if you wanted to be anti-establishment, as the far right always want, you had to be ecological. Today it is almost impossible for far right political parties to take that kind of position because the voters don’t want it.'