You don’t need to be a climate scientist to know which way the world is currently headed. Our weather patterns and seasonal cycles are shifting drastically. Biodiversity is collapsing as global temperatures rise. The oceans are turning acidic. It’s not hard to see why this is happening and who is causing it. The highest earners globally produce the most emissions through AI, industry, and private plane use. Fossil fuel capitalists—coal and oil producers, energy company CEOs, car manufacturers—are destroying our planet and blocking us from implementing effective solutions to our planetary crisis, all while increasing our bills to feed their hunger for profit. Despite all this overwhelming evidence, many on the far right refuse to publicly acknowledge the causes and reality of climate change.

Current polls suggest that the next British prime minister may be a man who refers to Net Zero as “lunacy.” At a time when the world needs to reduce carbon emissions, Farage has promised to reintroduce the practice of ‘fracking’ so energy companies can rip up the countryside to hunt for shale gas reserves. This is not a surprise. In 2024, nearly half of Reform’s donations came from fossil fuel investors or “climate skeptics.” The party has also maintained ties with the Heartland Institute, a U.S.-based think tank that used to dispute the cancer risks of smoking and now denies the link between human activity and climate change.

Since taking office in the 2025 local elections, most Reform-led councils have withdrawn ‘climate emergency’ declarations, abandoned solar projects, and scrapped New Zero targets. Inevitably, the people who are set to benefit most from Reform’s anti-environment policies are also least likely to face the brutal consequences of them.  

Ecofascists and Green nationalists

Not everyone on the far right is a climate denier, however. Ecofascists decry modern industry, disdain urban living, and promote a ‘blood and soil’ ideology that encourages white Europeans to ‘re-discover’ their spiritual connection to the natural environments of their homelands. Green nationalists propose ‘conservationism’ as a way to preserve the heritage and landscape of the nation. Instead of targeting the fossil fuel industry or corporate lobbyists, ecofascists and green nationalists blame ‘immigration’ and ‘overpopulation’ for the climate breakdown. For them, depopulation—particularly of people from non-white backgrounds—is the only solution to rising temperatures: ‘lone wolf’ terrorists wiping out “undesirables,” right-wing governments turning away climate refugees at the border. It is eugenics with a green twist, a Mad Max Malthusianism for the end-times.   

Those of us who are going through this moment in history must confront a deeply existential question: who deserves to live in the future? Farage and his fossil fuel mates crave short-term profits, not the survival of the species. Billionaires plan to retreat to their luxury bunkers with their private security teams and servants, where they can ponder their obscene wealth like mad kings. Eco-fascists and green nationalists dream of a ‘whites-only’ utopia, where minorities are hunted down and climate refugees are shot on sight. Even so-called ‘centrist’ politicians in Europe and North America seem happy to condemn most of humanity to the fire, as long as it does not interfere with capital’s freedom to exploit the earth and extract value from workers. As eco-socialists, we believe in a different answer to this question.

An alternative way forward

We do not trust in the empty promises and performative targets of ‘green capitalism’. We demand:

• a planned and rapid shift from fossil fuels to renewables (with guaranteed green retraining for energy workers),

• a complete reduction of spending on the military (a significant contributor to carbon emissions),

• the reorganising of food production around more sustainable models,

• refugee status to victims of ecological disasters, and more.

The far right is building its own vision of the future based on exclusionary principles. To this, we say “Fuck off, we’re not letting you do that.” We want to build an alternative, a future where no one is left behind. What kind of future would you rather live in?