Fascism is already here
I think we’d best beware of the “fascism” that we already have! Trump is using the COVID-19 pandemic to relax environmental standards for industries as it is. If anything, we’re going in a totally opposite direction than what this suggests. Our once-relevant Environmental Protection Agency has been mostly hijacked early on by the Trump administration. Andrew Wheeler, the present EPA head, worked previously as a coal industry lobbyist, and Trump’s first appointed head was a climate change denier. So it’s unlikely that we are headed for “ecofascism” any time soon. You know, there are at least two extremes, and there’s such a thing as doing things right and for the right reason. And it’s not impossible to do so.
—Danny Comer, via Facebook