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The Coming Avocado Politics | The Breakthrough Institute

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This January, Austria’s center-right People’s Party entered a new political coalition with the Austrian Green Party. “It is possible to protect the climate and borders,” the new Prime Minister, Sebastian Kurz proclaimed, as he announced that the coalition would unite “the best of both worlds” by mandating 100 percent renewable energy by 2030, banning Islamic headscarves, and detaining asylum seekers. Austria’s new ruling coalition may prove to be a short-lived marriage of convenience for all involved. But it also illustrates that if and when right-wing nationalists accept the apocalyptic climate claims of progressive environmentalists, the results are unlikely to be particularly progressive. For a generation, it has been an article of faith among many progressives that climate denial is a tactic adopted by the Right because to accept the reality of climate science would force them to embrace policies they otherwise loathe. Conservatives deny climate science, Naomi Oreskes has claimed,

The Coming Avocado Politics | The Breakthrough Institute Environmental Politics Partisanship Europe North America United States The Coming Avocado Politics What Happens When the Ethno-Nationalist Right Gets Serious about the Climate Emergency Feb 7, 2020 Share Share via Twitter Share via Facebook Share via Email This January, Austria’s center-right People’s Party entered a new political coalition with the Austrian Green Party. “It is possible to protect the climate and borders,” the new Prime Minister, Sebastian Kurz proclaimed, as he announced that the coalition would unite “the best of both

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