This is a review of "End Times Fascism", a new book by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor that examines how the world's wealthiest and most powerful figures are responding to the climate crisis and societal breakdown not by trying to prevent it, but by preparing to profit from or escape it. The authors argue that a loose alliance of religious fanatics, tech billionaires and nationalist politicians is converging around a shared willingness to accelerate disaster, and the review frames the book as both a diagnosis of this danger and a call to resist its normalisation.

Klein and Taylor identify three factions within this "end times fascism": religious extremists who welcome catastrophe as a sign of the end of days, tech barons who champion an unchecked AI race while planning fortified retreats from societal collapse, and political entrepreneurs who exploit fear of migration and resource scarcity to build "bunkered garrison states". They define fascism broadly, as "capitalism with bared teeth", drawing on thinkers including Walter Benjamin and WEB Du Bois, and cite examples such as the "New Gaza" redevelopment vision touted by the Trump administration. The review notes Klein has spent nearly three decades writing on the links between deregulated capitalism and anti-democratic politics, while Taylor is a longtime social justice activist and film-maker.