This is a history of the word “environmentalism” and of the social movement that embraced this word in the 1960s. For a century “environmentalists” were Geography Professors who believed a people’s development and culture were entirely determined by the physical area in which they lived. The term “environmentalist” was appropriated in the late 1960s by an old social movement struggling to defend Europe’s landowning community. This social movement co-opted an influential contingent of wealthy families from the US Northeast. The twin goals of this elite trans-Atlantic social movement have always been: the placing of industrial enterprises under state control and putting a stop to colonial land expansion. Ironically, the old school geographical “environmentalism” provides a useful set of directives toward understanding the modern Environmentalist social movement.
…The Great Spectre haunting Europe is that the industrial heartland of North America will explode North and West in a manner similar to the expansions occurring during the Washington and Lincoln eras. This would accelerate Europe’s relative economic decline and lure away millions more European farmers and technicians. Binding the North American economy to its current land base is a primary European foreign policy objective.
The Fascist social movement was the fighting arm of the European land-owning community. Fascists were categorically hostile to the “free enterprise” model of capitalism. While maintaining support from established Churches, Fascists promoted subcultures involved in paganism, occultism, nature worship, soil worship, organic farming, and tree-hugging. Fascists drew particular propaganda value from pseudo-scientific claims that industry was destroying Earth’s “ecology”. Fascists deployed a cynical propaganda strategy frequently using fabricated information. The Environmentalist social movement is the fighting arm of the European and US Northeastern land-owning community. Environmentalists are hostile to the “free enterprise” model….
El informe completo aquí. Yo había visto much0os puntos en común con el marxismo y el buenismo del 68, pero esta es también una visión bastante acertada del problema.
