Ecology, Anti-Christianity, and the Far Right: The Readings and Recoveries of Lynn White's "The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis".

The article examines how the far right, particularly the European New Right associated with the Groupement de Recherches et d’Études pour la Culture Européenne (GRECE), interprets Lynn White Jr.’s 1967 article “The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis.” White’s work argues that Christianity—especially its Catholic form—disrupted a harmonious, animistic relationship with nature inherited from Pagan traditions, promoting instead a dominion-over-nature worldview that underpins Western technological development and ecological degradation. The New Right adopts White’s critique to support its anti-Christian, neo-Pagan ideology, portraying Christianity as a destructive, totalitarian force that severed Europeans from their Indo-European pagan roots and ecological balance. This appropriation allows far-right intellectuals to legitimize radical ecological and cultural critiques while distancing themselves from explicitly Nazi or völkisch sources, blending anti-modernism, paganism, and ecological concerns within their political framework.