Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 01/21/2011 7:40:58 AM PST by Olympiad Fisherman
This is a critical condensation of Raymond H. Dominick III’s The Environmental Movement in Germany: Prophets and Pioneers, 1871-1971. Highlights:
In 1918 Prussia’s Government Nature-care Center sought a directory of major German Nature-protection organizations (ones with notable achievements). They came up with 264 organizations. The Center’s bibliography of German Nature-protection publications listed 10,000 titles. The German conservation movement counted 100,000 active participants and was led by hundreds of aristocrats. German forestry, ornithology and ecology academies were created in the 19th century as auxiliaries of the conservation movement.
The German conservation movement was overwhelmingly and durably aligned with Nazism. The Third Reich was a flamboyantly green regime. A best-selling German novel, published in 1958, had a sub-plot about catastrophic anthropogenic global warming caused by CO2 emissions. The novelist founded an international environmental league, led by a former leader of the Hitler Youth, which was instrumental in launching the German Green Party ...
The modern environmental movement with its mass organizations, confrontational tactics, media manipulation, politicized science andapocalyptic propaganda, consolidated in West Germanyin 1959-61 then spread to the English-speaking world.
Most arguments used by environmentalists today were articulated by conservationists during the reign of the Kaisers. Many conservation organizations operating in 1918 continue to operate. The line from 19th century Nature-protection to modern environmentalism is without gaps or reversals of direction.
The first “acid rain” scare was in 1864.
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Ohio State University supported Dominick’s writing of The Environmental Movement in Germany with grants, release time and support staff. The German Academic Exchange Service funded Dominick’s research in Germany. Dominick thanks several German environmental organizations for their help. A pro-environmentalist bias is evident on every page of this book. All facts and quotes in the main text of this condensation are from Dominick’s text unless otherwise stated.
(Excerpt) Read more at ecofascism.com ...
The environmental movement in East Germany 1949-1990:
Non-existent.
Reason? Communism. The Westerners were shocked to discover the place was a cesspool, literally chemically colored open toxic ponds all over the place. This is why I find the communist leanings of many environmentalists so irrational. Communism is their greatest enemy.
There’s a good youtube video about how the environmental movement and it’s useful idiots are an off-shoot of Nazi eugenics programs. I’ll try to find it and post when I have time. It’s compelling and interesting stuff. Consider poor people are the globe (mostly Africans) are starving so we can produce ethanol biofuel, for example.
This is the primary reason why I do not like it when conservatives compare environmentalists with communists and call them watermelons. This is simply untrue. Environmentalism is far more like Nazism than communism precisely because communism is based on humanism whereas Nazism is based on nature. This is one of the reasons why they did not get along with each other. More to the point, when reds become green, they are moving over to fascism much like many Germans did after the turn of the 20th century.
When you have time, check out this particular lecture as well - given last March - http://www.rmarkmusser.com/enviro.asp.
later
>>This is one of the reasons why they did not get along with each other.
It may be one of the reasons they didn’t get along, but I’ll take Hayek’s analysis over that. From my FR profile page:
Although our modern socialists’ promise of greater freedom is genuine and sincere, in recent years observer after observer has been impressed by the unforeseen consequences of socialism, the extraordinary similarity in many respects of the conditions under “communism” and “fascism.” As the writer Peter Drucker expressed it in 1939, “the complete collapse of the belief in the attainability of freedom and equality through Marxism has forced Russia to travel the same road toward a totalitarian society of un-freedom and inequality which Germany has been following. Not that communism and fascism are essentially the same. Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion, and it has proved as much an illusion in Russia as in pre-Hitler Germany.”
No less significant is the intellectual outlook of the rank and file in the communist and fascist movements in Germany before 1933. The relative ease with which a young communist could be converted into a Nazi or vice versa was well known, best of all to the propagandists of the two parties. The communists and Nazis clashed more frequently with each other than with other parties simply because they competed for the same type of mind and reserved for each other the hatred of the heretic. Their practice showed how closely they are related. To both, the real enemy, the man with whom they had nothing in common, was the liberal of the old type. While to the Nazi the communist and to the communist the Nazi, and to both the socialist, are potential recruits made of the right timber, they both know that there can be no compromise between them and those who really believe in individual freedom.
— F.A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom
A great summary on the issue!
It is a great passage to have handy when Leftists are throwing “you are NAZIS!” around at Republicans / conservatives. It really puts them to sputtering.
Great video... long but well worth it!
I bet his book is interesting.
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