This author attempts to frighten those with prepolitical green sentiments into embracing leftism. Contradiction I noted: he states that environmental themes, whether from the left or from the right, “require an explicit social context... to have any political valence” but then in the next sentence states that not heeding this necessity “is the hallmark of reactionary ecology.” It is self-contradictory to state that all politically relevant environmental themes must have an explicit social context while maintaining at the same time that the failure to explicate such a context marks right-reactionary environmental themes.
Indeed, after shocking us by showing how our innocuous organic strawberries took root in Walther Darre’s bloody soil, the author promises “equally vital left-libertarian” ecology that will create “an emancipatory... politics” if the naive desire to be neither right nor left can be overcome.
Of course, that goes without saying.