Why We Have to Combat Eco-Fascism to Save the Planet
was a climate-anxious undergraduate before the concept of climate anxiety really caught on. A decade ago, when I told my friends and family I was deeply worried about warming oceans, plastic pollution, and climate denialism, they often asked, gently, “Okay, but what’s really going on?” They couldn’t understand the emotional intensity of my concern and thought I was being dramatic or deflecting from something else troubling me. Sometimes, I wondered if anyone else really