Support for Pro-Climate and Ecofascist Extremism: Correlates and Intersections

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Table 1. Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients of variables in Survey 1, N = 307.

Variables	Pro-Climate Action	Ecofascist Action	Ecofascist Ideology
Pro-Climate Action	1.000
Eco-Fascist Action	.529***	1.000
Ecofascist Ideology	.263***	.462***	1.000
SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHICS
Sex (Male=1, Female=2)	.138	−.014*	−.051
Age	−.247***	−.075	.054
Education	−.047	−.178**	−.120*
Income	−.073	−.070	−.009
IDENTITY
British Identity	.036	.184**	.319***
Identification with Humanity	.154**	−.047	−.022
Environmental Identity	.050	−.044	−.036
Ident. with Environmentalists	.285***	−.013	−.062
PERSONALITY AND ATTITUDES
Multiculturalism	−.109	−.438***	−.548***
Ethnocentrism	.226***	.393***	.474***
Social Dominance Orientation	.200***	.354***	.469***
Right-Wing Authoritarianism	−.028	.295***	.368***
Pro-Climate Radical Action Norm	.382***	.096	.018
Pro-Immigration Norm	.203***	−.124*	−.253***
Trust in Mainstream Media	.079	.014	−.074
Left-Right Self-Classification	.017	.284***	.347***
Liberal-Conservative Self-Classification	.094	.388***	.374***
EFFICACY
Internal Political Efficacy	−.101	.024	.099
External Political Efficacy	−.142*	−.138*	−.170**
National Climate Efficacy	.002	.086*	−.010
Global Climate Efficacy	.154**	.156**	.147**
GRIEVANCES
Concern over Climate Change	.044	−.074	−.154**
Concern over Social Inequalities	.081*	−.118*	−.174**
Globalisation Neg. for Humans	−.027	−.053	−.087
Globalisation Neg. for Ecosystem	.242***	.211***	.146*
Globalisation Neg. for One-Self	.028	−.038	−.088*

^*p < 0.05, ^**p < 0.01, ^***p < 0.001.

Table 2. Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients of variables in Survey 2, N = 293.

Variables	Pro-Climate Action	Ecofascist Action	Ecofascist Ideology
Pro-Climate Action	1.000
Eco-Fascist Action	.459***	1.000
Ecofascist Ideology	.286***	.503***	1.000
SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHICS
Sex (Male=1, Female=2)	.172**	.069	−.015
Age	−.399	−.063	.078
Education	−.024	−.099	−.102
Income	−.053	−.056	−.013
IDENTITY
British Identity	−.120*	.100	.309***
Identification with Humanity	.118*	−.018	−.146*
Environmental Identity	−.067	−.073	−.017
Ident. with Environmentalists	.194***	−.027	−.031
PERSONALITY AND ATTITUDES
Neuroticism	.211***	.063	−.059
Perceived Life Control	−.043	.021	.083
Left-Right Self-Classification	−.004	.235***	.404***
EFFICACY
National Climate Efficacy	−.185**	−.044	−.011
Global Climate Efficacy	−.084	.087	.093
Climate Change is Hoax	.352***	.377***	.358***
Climate Change Cannot be Stopped	.165**	.180**	.220***

^*p < 0.05, ^**p < 0.01, ^***p < 0.001.

Table 3. Logistic regression of the support for the three types of extremist action over each independent variable separately (Survey 1, N = 307, odds ratio).

Variables	Both Actions	Pro-Climate Action Only	Eco-Fascist Action Only
SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES
Sex (Male=1, Female=2)	1.39	1.18	.48*
Age	.99	.95	1.01
Education	.80	1.20	.66*
Income	.92	1.18	.94
IDENTITY
British Identity	1.57	.93	1.40*
Identification with Humanity	1.34	1.06	.76*
Environmental Identity	1.40	.82	.85
Ident. with Environmentalists	1.23	1.07	.81*
PERSONALITY AND ATTITUDES
Multiculturalism	.66*	1.28	.44***
Ethnocentrism	2.67*	1.37	4.30***
Social Dominance Orientation	1.31	1.25	2.32***
Right-Wing Authoritarianism	1.69*	.63	1.71***
Pro-Climate Radical Action Norm	1.35	1.66	.98
Pro-Immigration Norm	1.14	2.10*	.68***
Trust in Mainstream Media	1.13	1.64	.84
Left-Right Self-Classification	1.59	1.64	1.81***
Liberal-Conservative Self-Classification	2.11**	1.86	1.72***
EFFICACY
Internal Political Efficacy	1.34	.72	1.14
External Political Efficacy	.48**	.82	.77*
National Climate Efficacy	1.60	.81	1.08
Global Climate Efficacy	2.02**	1.25	1.12
GRIEVANCES
Concern over Climate Change	1.19	1.17	.90
Concern over Social Inequalities	1.17	1.07	.82
Globalisation Neg. for Humans	1.15	1.03	.90
Globalisation Neg. for Ecosystem	1.14	1.73*	1.15
Globalisation Neg. for One-Self	1.76*	1.35	.87

^*p < 0.05, ^**p < 0.01, ^***p < 0.001.

Table 4. Logistic regression of the support for the three types of extremist action over each independent variable separately (Survey 2, N = 293, odds ratio).

Variables	Both Actions	Pro-Climate Action Only	Eco-Fascist Action Only
SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES
Sex (Male=1, Female=2)	.41	1.97	.79
Age	.98	.97	1.01
Education	.88	.70	.86
Income	.72	1.15	1.11
IDENTITY
British Identity	1.37	1.16	1.24
Identification with Humanity	1.85*	1.30	.91
Environmental Identity	1.62	1.10	1.00
Ident. with Environmentalists	1.43	1.84	.81*
PERSONALITY AND ATTITUDES
Neuroticism	13.63***	.47	1.04
Perceived Life Control	1.41	.95	1.16
Left-Right Self-Classification	2.19**	.44	1.60**
EFFICACY
National Climate Efficacy	.87	.65	1.11
Global Climate Efficacy	.98	1.55	1.20
Climate Change is Hoax	1.62**	1.23	1.34**
Climate Change Cannot be Stopped	.99	1.02	1.23*

^*p < 0.05, ^**p < 0.01, ^***p < 0.001.