We’re already seeing the damage, ranging from migrant communities terrorized by Trump’s anti-immigration raids to Muslims targeted by vicious pogroms in India. The harm which leaders peddling this politics can cause even in a short space of time is immense. During his four-year tenure, Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro inflicted immeasurable and perhaps irreversible harm to the Amazon rainforest. Their brand of politics, by and large, rejects climate action and is in service to corporations that want to continue plundering this planet rather than save it. As such, their rise, India Hate Lab founder Raqib Hameed Naik says, should be treated as a ‘public health emergency’, making the pushback imperative to the wellbeing of our communities and even our very survival.