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Some 100 years before the Nazis rose to power, German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) ominously wrote that “we owe the animals not mercy but justice, and the debt often remains unpaid in Europe, the continent that is permeated with Foeter Judaicus...it is obviously high time in Europe that Jewish views on nature were brought to an end...the unconscionable treatment of the animal world must, on account of its immorality, be expelled from Europe."
That such words became prophetic under the umbrella of a secular religion of nature that was Nazi Germany, colored by an environmen
There was in fact a convergence between early German environmentalism and Nazism that is stunning with regard to how the Nazis promoted nationalistic ecological ideas, yet also found themselves unable to match in practice the green rhetoric they were espousing for a variety of reasons.
Here begins the lesson of a nationalistic racism and environmentalism that got hotwired together into an explosive political ecology that eventually dug a biological-ecological hole as deep as Auschwitz.
This view on man and nature strongly implies an autonomous utilitarian ecology, which has been the most hated ideological concept by environmental thinkers for some 200 years now. It was especially the Protestant Reformation and the Enlightenment that emphasized this utilitarian view of nature that opened the door for the Industrial Revolution and free market capitalism, the two greatest forces of the modern world which has supposedly left the earth in ecological shambles.
Over time this Social Darwinist emphasis on returning back to the evolutionary laws of nature further mutated into an occultic volkish belief in “blood and soil,” where the German volk assumed that they had a special mystical relationship to the German landscape through their blood. Thus well before the Nazis had even come to power, Haeckel and the Monists essentially argued for an early Nazi version of eugenics and the environment, which later became known as “blood and soil.”
While it is certainly true that Nazi environmentalism was not nearly as far reaching as its own laws trumpeted, this should not be surprising since the Nazis were undoubtedly far more interested in using environmental laws
Originally posted by wonderworld
reply to post by grapesofraft
I just loving making a point between the Nazi's and the Obama admin. also the Germany hyperinfltion in the 30's. We are following the same path and more people are seeing it.
Originally posted by ZeroKnowledge
While green movement is being used by politicians for their personal agenda , this still does not help the fact that we polluted our own planet.
Originally posted by Exuberant1
Originally posted by ZeroKnowledge
While green movement is being used by politicians for their personal agenda , this still does not help the fact that we polluted our own planet.
And where did that pollution come from?
...the planet...
We are a part of the ecosystem, even our technology is a perfectly natural byproduct of terrestrial organismic intelligence.
Originally posted by silent thunder
Species go extinct every day. Maybe we'll be one of them if we don't watch out.