Ecofascism by Janet Biehl

Lessons from the German Experience

A historical and political analysis that traces how environmental ideas have been entangled with authoritarian, nationalist, and exclusionary movements in Germany, showing how nature mysticism, conservation rhetoric, and ecological determinism were used to justify racism and state violence; the book examines case studies from the völkisch movement through Nazism and critiques strands of modern environmentalism to warn how ecological concerns can be co-opted by anti-democratic ideologies if left unchallenged.

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