AI, Climate Change And The Creeping Risk Of Ecofacism
July 21, 2025 | Source: World Crunch | by An Flores
MEXICO CITY — From the White House and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, to Mexico’s environment secretary and former Colombian Environment Minister Susana Muhamad Gonzalez, to our closest friends and even ourselves, we were all very much welcome by OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman.
We earned this good will by generating more than 200 million images with a filter that simulated the characteristic style of Studio Ghibli, the Japanese production house founded by animators and directors Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata and Toshio Suzuki.
Attention was drawn to environmental authorities — of supposedly leftist presidencies — who, without criticizing or raising awareness, joined this trend. Yet the publication of images of deportations and militias in this same style showed that right-wing governments, such as those of U.S. President Donald Trump and Bukele, have found an effective way to promote a fascist aesthetic, as explained by media critic Danielle Cruz Villanueva and writer Gareth Watkins.