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Today is Earth Day, which has been an occasion to call for conservationism and environmental protection since it was first celebrated in America with bipartisan support in 1970, in response to the Santa Barbara oil spill of 1969. Although in recent decades environmentalism has come to be identified with the political Left, taking stewardship of the Earth and seeking harmony in the relationship between man and nature has traditionally been an issue of the Right. Progressives, on the other hand, especially as manifested in Communism, have historically been proponents of mass industrialization, believing that it is as possible to transform the planet into a technological utopia as they consider it possible to alter human nature itself, and exhibited complete disregard for the destructive impact their projects had on the natural world.
Today, of course, despite some differences in their surface rhetoric, the mainstream Left and Right are united in viewing the Earth as nothing more than a resource to be exploited for economic growth, differing only in the details. But the True Right has always recognized that man must be understood within the context of the natural order as a whole, and that it is only by understanding and respecting our place within it that societies and individuals can truly grow and prosper without sacrificing their children’s futures.
We would like to draw your attention to the following articles which deal with these themes:
- Robert Stark Interviews Greg Johnson on Eco-Fascism (French version here, Czech version here)
- Howe Abbott-Hiss, “Beaver Mindset.”
- Beau Albrecht, “Avatar: The Way of Water.”
- Beau Albrecht, “When Will Greta Thunberg Shut Up?.”
- Aquilonius, “The Problem with Foodie Cosmopolitanism.”
- Algis Avizieni, “The Promise and the Reality of Globalization.”
- Winston E. Bakewell, “Liberty and Justice for All: The Case for Canine Suffrage.”
- Winston E. Bakewell, “The Real Cost of a Traffic Jam.”
- Jim Baumer, “When Your Child Dies for a Cause.”
- Jonathan Bowden, “The E Word: Eugenics & Environmentalism, Madison Grant & Lothrop Stoddard.”
- Hubert Collins, “Ten Questions for Radical Environmentalist Derrick Jensen,” Part 1, Part 2
- Mark Deavin, “Henry Williamson: Nature’s Visionary.”
- James Dunphy, “We Can’t Save the Earth Without Reducing African Birth Rates.”
- Diord Fionn, “Pentti Linkola’s Can Life Prevail?.”
- Thomas Goodrich, “Peaceful, Pastoral, Philosophical: The American Indian as Naked Naturalist.”
- Alex Graham, “Jorian Jenks: Farmer & Fascist.”
- Alex Graham, “Profiles of Early Conservationists” (Czech version here)
- Mark Gullick, “Here Comes the Sum: Christopher Booker’s The Real Global Warming Disaster.”
- Mark Gullick, “The Union Jackal, February 2023.”
- Timo Hännikäinen, “Remembering Pentti Linkola” (Czech version here)
- Richard Houck, “Greta and Left vs. Right Environmentalism” (Czech version here)
- Buck Hunter, “The Great White Hunter.”
- Greg Johnson, “Animal Justice?.”
- Greg Johnson, “Heidegger & Ethnic Nationalism,” Part 1, Part 2
- Greg Johnson, “Savitri Devi, Traditionalism, and Nature Religion.”
- Greg Johnson, “Toward a Right-Wing Environmentalism.”
- Greg Johnson, “West-Coast White Nationalism.”
- Greg Johnson, “Why Environmentalists Should Have Large Families” (Czech version here, French version here)
- Ted Kaczynski, “Ted Kaczynski’s ‘Ship of Fools’” (German version here)
- Jackson Klott, “Asleep at the Wheel of a Bulldozer.”
- Pentti Linkola, “Bull’s Eye.”
- Pentti Linkola, “Humanflood.”
- Pentti Linkola, “Pentti Linkola : citations choisies.”
- Matt Parrott, “Ship of Fools.”
- J. J. Przybylski, “Butchering Cultured Meat.”
- Savitri Devi, “Race, Economics, & Kindness: The Ideal World.”
- Nicholas Slattery, “The Fundamental Trinity.”
- Mitch Smith, “Being Bill McKibben.”
- George P. Stimson, Jr., “Dimming Down America.”
- George P. Stimson, Jr., “Living with Predators.”
- George P. Stimson, Jr., “Open Season on Poachers.”
- George P. Stimson, Jr., “Paper or Plastic? Neither..”
- George P. Stimson, Jr., “Radical Naturalism.”
- William de Vere, “Ecofascism Resurgent.”
- William de Vere, “Ecology Viewed from the Right.”
- William de Vere, “The Great Replacement and the Great Outdoors: Demographic Change and the Future of American Wilderness.”
- William de Vere, “Leftward Drift and Radical Ecology: The Tragedy of Earth First!” Part 1, Part 2
- William de Vere, “Living Monuments.”
- William de Vere, “The Metaphysics of Integral Ecology” (French version here)
- William de Vere, “Midsummer.”
- William de Vere, “The Politics of Meat: An Ecofascist Perspective.”
- William de Vere, “The Purgative Fantasy.”
- William de Vere, “The WASP in the Wilderness.”
- Michael Walker, “Environmentalism & White Nationalism: A Shared Destiny.”
- Michael Walker, “Get Your Hands Round This.”
- Michael Walker, “The Spotted Owl & the Elephant in the Room.”
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Yes, I’m going to ‘should’ on you! We all SHOULD plant a tree today. I’m off to the dollar store to get several containers to use for seed-starting today, since I have myriad seeds from my California Canyon Ash Trees towering in my backyard in suburban southern California. Most everywhere in the U.S. there is some variety of the prolific Ash Tree to grow. (However, if too many are planted close each other, it gets a parasite of some sort), The Ash tree is known in Pagan lore as “The Mother Earth Tree” and was worshipped as such in ceremonies. There were three others which Pagans worshipped as well, but I can only remember two: Oak and Willow.
We can ignore the shrieks from the overwrought Greenies of the Left if we encourage one another and the other 8 billion people on Planet Earth to each plant a tree each year on this day — that’s 8 billion new trees puffing out oxygen day for years — enough to overcome our horrid man-made poisons and other lurid ways we destroy the planet, bit by bit daily.
Happy Earth Day to one an all, and please go to the nearest nursery to buy a small tree, even if it is only to be kept clipped on your balcony.
Let me be the first to give a big thank you to Ira Einhorn for founding Earth Day
I never heard of Ira Einhorn before. Just now, I went to Wikipedia to look him up. It’s a brief, but amazing article. He helped to start the first Earth Day in 1970. He was also a druggie, a hippie, and a left-wing loony. In 1977, he committed a horrible murder, and lived with the corpse in his apartment for the next 18 months, before the odor of decomposition alerted the police. He later skipped bail of only $40,000 provided by a rich Jewess, who shared an interest in the paranormal with him. In 2001, he was extradited from France, where he had been living under an alias.
From Wikipedia: “Ira Samuel Einhorn (May 15, 1940 – April 3, 2020), known as “The Unicorn Killer”, was an American convicted murderer and environmental activist.”
Was he ever executed?
Environmentalism is a sound idea. People across the political spectrum support a clean natural environment. Even non-political people support it.
An easy way to help the environment would be to close the borders to mass immigration. Immigration is the number one cause of environmental destruction. Environmentalism and immigration restrictionism go naturally together.
One of the most fundamental questions facing mankind is, who shall inhabit the Earth, which then becomes, who shall breed? The truths of Malthus have been delayed but not defeated. Even as the superior under-reproduce, those incapable of planetary stewardship continue to explode in number. This is unsustainable. Ecology absolutely belongs on the Right.
There are now four components to environmentalism in the US. Two, Conservation and Preservation, started roughly the same time soon after the Civil War, with Conservation maybe a couple years earlier. Conservation was unsentimental and businesslike, aimed at the people on the ground who could make or break it, like miners and ranchers and farmers. It did have a seemingly sentimental part, wildlife conservation, but at first that was mostly just for game species. Preservation was aimed at wealthy and UMC urbanites. It was sentimental and was behind the national parks movement. Almost 100 years later with Silent Spring came Environmental Protection, aimed at middle class suburbanites, especially women. It was a semi success, getting rid of polluters from their neighborhoods, but the polluters would just relocate to the second or third worlds. The fourth one, Environmental Justice, is a Sharpton-style antiwhite protection racket that has nothing to do with the other three. It started, my guess, in the late 80s, but didn’t have a name until the mid 90s. “Climate change” might be part of EJ or it could be a fifth component.
Greg Johnson “Toward a Right-Wing Environmentalism” is no longer available at the link given here. Is there another way to hear it?
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