Please join us as we welcome Professor Mikkel Thorup (Department of Philosophy and History of Ideas) for an exploration of the relationship between climate change and the political far right.

As for all CEH TALKs, the event is open to everyone with no prior registration needed. Coffee and tea provided. 

Abstract
The far right is divided on whether to deny or embrace climate change. This talk will focus on the 'green' fringe of the far right instrumentalizing climate change for radical political purposes. We shall look at great replacement theories, ethnic demography concerns, conspiration theories, Armageddon stories and the fight against the Apocalypse, proclaimed by authors and actors who believe in power and passion, rather than science and deliberation, people who see the accelerating climate crisis as a great opportunity to ethnically cleanse the nation.