Soon after joining Ireland’s Green Party in the 1990s, I attended a few discussions about the roots of ecological politics.
I don’t recall contributing much to those discussions. I just sat and listened to activists who were more clever and better informed than I was.
One such activist noted that there had previously been a political organization expressing a strong attachment to nature: The Nazis often talked about blood and soil.
At the time, I didn’t want to believe that Nazis could have influenced the international green movement in any way. The German Greens I had seen on television all appeared to be espousing a “make love not war” philosophy. ….more
