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.
BhatH (2021) The weather is always a method. In International Relations in the Anthropocene (pp. 407–423). Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.
