This article was originally published by HuffPostand is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

A manifesto posted online shortly before Saturday’s massacre at a Walmart in El Paso that the suspected shooter may have written blamed immigrants for hastening the environmental destruction of the United States and proposed genocide as a pathway to ecological sustainability.

A shooting at a shopping complex in El Paso, Texas, on August 3, 2019, left at least 20 people dead. The city, shown here at sunset, borders Juárez, Mexico, seen in the distance. Credit: Second-Half Travels/CC via Flickr

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