Climate Deniers Who Praised 1/6 Insurrection Terribly Worried By Imaginary Surge In Green Violence
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There’s a provocative book by Lund University ecology professor Andreas Malm suggesting that maybe environmentalists should reconsider their pacifism and start sabotaging fossil fuel infrastructure. Unsurprisingly, deniers are up in arms about it. The book, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, has been around a bit, but Fox et al. discovered a recent New Yorker and WNYC Studios podcast interviewing Malm, and now deniers are using it to claim that greens are getting violent.
Marc Morano, who was encouraged by the January 6 insurection and felt conservatives needed to replicate it at statehouses across the country, and tweets regularly about his refusal to protect others by wearing a mask or getting the covid vaccine (even though the disease may cause restless anal syndrome, he tweeted he still won’t get vaccinated) is now very concerned about political violence. At Climate Depot, he made a post himself and posted a link to a Newsbusters piece calling the New Yorker interview with Malm “taxpayer-funded CRAZY”, as it was co-produced by WNYC Studios. The write-up closes with an extensive quote from Marc, in which he says of the interview asking IF environmentalists WOULD be justified to consider whether they SHOULD embrace more extreme measures they currently avoid, that the outlet interviewing an academic “appears to be joining the growing movement of green activists endorsing intimidation and coercion to achieve environmental and climate goals.”
Malm’s point is that green groups are NOT engaging in these types of tactics, and Morano suggests that simply by talking to him, The New Yorker is “joining the growing movement.” Apparently, per Marc, the “era of COVID mandate coercion may be further radicalizing” activists jealous of COVID lockdowns, and “many environmental activists seem to be asking themselves why not use violence and threats of violence to achieve their ends.” Are they though? What growing movement? What groups, specifically, are asking themselves these questions about violence, Marc?
For the best we can see as an answer, we turn to the Daily Wire, where “reporter and columnist” Ashe Schow has more on this obviously false narrative. Schow’s bylines can be seen anywhere ranging from the Koch-funded Heritage Foundation to Koch-funded Real Clear to Koch-funded Federalist, so it’s not exactly a surprise that she took a break from writing about the terrors of teaching about racism, defending a January 6 insurrectionist from false reports that his LEGO set of the Capitol was assembled, praising the censoring of books conservatives don’t like and another complaining about “cancel culture” to warn that “leftists [are] increasingly accepting of environmental terrorism.”
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/1/2055482/-Anti-Vaxx-Mask-Pro-Insurrection-Denier-Suddenly-Very-Worried-About-Political-Violence
