The giveaway that the fascist, racist right in America will start adopting climate change as the reason for autocracy as well as ending immigration, the twin battle cries to "save our way of life", is coming from Europe's scarier corners, specifically people like Austria's leader, Sebastian Kurz.
Austria's Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said it is the government's duty to "protect young girls" from the harmful side-effects of immigration, defending his pledge to ban headscarves in schools for girls under the age of 14.
In an interview with the Financial Times, published Monday, Kurz also said controlling illegal immigration is at least as pivotal as tackling climate change, adding that both issues will be on top of his government's agenda.
“It is important to protect our environment but it is also important to decide who will live in our country," he said, adding that better control of immigration is an integral part of protecting cultural identity. He also announced more drastic measures to guarantee national security, such as preventive detention of immigrants suspected of religious extremism.
Kurz leads a governing coalition with the Greens after striking a deal earlier this month. While immigration and cultural identity traditionally are key concerns of Kurz's conservative People's Party (ÖVP), the Greens have long demanded a more ambitious strategy to protect the environment.
Kurz said Austria will strive to attain carbon neutrality by 2040.
Reelected in 2019 after his previous coalition government with the right-wing FPÖ collapsed over the so-called Ibiza scandal, Kurz has long championed tougher immigration rules on the national and European level, earning him both support and criticism.
I know this smacks of "well at least they made the trains run on time" reductionist claptrap, but climate change is going to be so awful over the next decade that fascists are simply going to use it to their advantage as we become a world of isolated, nationalist islands fighting over limited resources.
We won't survive.
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