dklumanski88
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I ran across this article while web surfing. I did not read the whole article and have no idea who Furedi is but...this is something about Hitler's leadership that I did not know.
Frank Furedi: "What we today call 'environmentalism' is ... based on a fear of change. It's based upon a fear of the outcome of human action. And therefore it's not surprising that when you look at the more xenophobic right-wing movements in Europe in the 19th century, including German fascism, it quite often had a very strong environmentalist dynamic to it. The most notorious environmentalists in history were the German Nazis. The Nazis ordered soldiers to plant more trees. They were the first Europeans to establish nature reserves and order the protection of hedgerows and other wildlife habitats. And they were horrified at the idea of hydroelectric dams on the Rhine. Adolf Hitler and other leading Nazis were vegetarian and they passed numerous laws on animal rights."
(The above paragraph is from the transcript of the British channel 4 documentary "Against Nature,"
After reading this I started thinking about how environmentally destructive modern society is...
Article Source: http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/ec ... cology.htm
Frank Furedi: "What we today call 'environmentalism' is ... based on a fear of change. It's based upon a fear of the outcome of human action. And therefore it's not surprising that when you look at the more xenophobic right-wing movements in Europe in the 19th century, including German fascism, it quite often had a very strong environmentalist dynamic to it. The most notorious environmentalists in history were the German Nazis. The Nazis ordered soldiers to plant more trees. They were the first Europeans to establish nature reserves and order the protection of hedgerows and other wildlife habitats. And they were horrified at the idea of hydroelectric dams on the Rhine. Adolf Hitler and other leading Nazis were vegetarian and they passed numerous laws on animal rights."
(The above paragraph is from the transcript of the British channel 4 documentary "Against Nature,"
After reading this I started thinking about how environmentally destructive modern society is...
Article Source: http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/ec ... cology.htm