Troubled waters and no bridges: The ecofascisms of an imagined global middle class

The article traces ecofascism in social-media commentary following a storm that affected the United Arab Emirates in April of 2024. This ecofascism is imagined by its creators as punching-up, as commentators see themselves as part of a global middle-class rejoicing at nature harming an equally imagined group of Emirati ultra-rich. Ignoring scientifically sanctioned realities of storms as products of climate change, these commentators blame cloud-seeding and techno-solutionism to cover forms of Islamophobia and ecofascism.