Abstract

The concern motivating this article is that the socioecological pressures of the Anthropocene are energizing ethnocentric populist and pluralist democratic political formations, but with different degrees of intensity. Specifically, the article engages several biocultural theories to explain how and why the Anthropocene's cognitive environments may be especially favorable to the authoritarian tendencies of right-wing populism.1 The article's thesis is that understanding the evolutionary roots, cognitive biases, dispositional forms, and environmental drivers of xenophobic hate and ethnocentric intolerance is vital to advancing countervailing pluralist, democratic, and ecologically responsible political and cultural... Read More.