On ep109 journalist Anna Bianca Roach sits down with University of Toronto research and policy analyst Abtin Parnia to explore how the extreme Right's anti-immigration ideology and population control rhetoric co-opts Green politics and the struggle for a sustainable and ecological future.

This conversation was recorded on December 2nd, 2019.

Articles cited on this episode include:

Betsy Hartmann, “Population Control I: Birth of an Ideology,” and “PopulationControl II:The Population Establishment Today,” International Journal of Health Services,1997, 27(3): 523-557

Nicholas Kulish and Mike McIntire, “Why an Heiress Spent Her Fortune Trying to Keep Immigrants Out”. NY Times (August 14, 2019). https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/us/anti-immigration-cordelia-scaife-may.html?action=click&module=Intentional&pgtype=Article

Natasha Lennard. “The El Paso Shooter Embraced Eco-Fascism. We Can’t Let the Far Right Co-Opt the Environmental Struggle”. The intercept (August 5, 2019). https://theintercept.com/2019/08/05/el-paso-shooting-eco-fascism-migration/

Courtney Parker. “An act of genocide: canada’s coerced sterilization of first nations women”. Intercontinental cry (November 15, 2019) https://intercontinentalcry.org/canadas-coerced-sterilization-of-first-nations-women/

Sarah Manavis. “Eco-fascism: The ideology marrying environmentalism and white supremacy thriving online”. New Stateman (September 21, 2018) https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-media/2018/09/eco-fascism-ideology-marrying-environmentalism-and-white-supremacy

Normandin, Sebastian, and Sean A. Valles. "How a network of conservationists and population control activists created the contemporary US anti-immigration movement." Endeavour 39.2 (2015): 95-105.

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