@FoodForestNetwk #AvocadoPolitics, well noted. Globally, these days, 'Blood and Soil' ideologies increasingly bear down on the reality of 'climate politics.' Oregon plant geeks, meanwhile, led the world deliberately bridging the 'natives-exotics divide' that's shoring up larger cultural tensions.
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Copy of tweets: #AvocadoPolitics: Italy’s Far Right PM Giorgia Meloni: "There is nothing more 'right-wing' than ecology. The right loves the environment because it loves the land, the identity, the homeland." Every time you post about #AvocadoPolitics, I flash back to the month in the early 70s when Mother Earth News & the New Age Journal *both* ran major stories (cover stories IIRC) on Nazi environmentalism & the danger of its return. A response to climate change that is channeled through the ideologies of borders, national security, and the military, is a response that opens the doors to ecofascism. Quote The Baffler “American white nationalists have already begun to spread ‘plant more trees; save the seas; deport refugees’ propaganda.”
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Tweets from March 5, 2019 Hitler's Reich explicitly situated itself as an organic, holistic, nature-centered movement, which practiced organic agriculture, forest protection, invasives-control programs, promoted a "return to nature," and implemented far-reaching nature-protection laws. Yep. It’s a sign of the amnesia about this whole history that Nazi forestry policy is sometimes cited as an “exception” to their otherwise odious program. Some Europeans are reviving a form of Nazi eco-fascism, even calling for a 'Green Fuhrer.' Now, as then, a polemic of rationalist and scientific supremacy runs blind and deep: the first to launch war against non-native plants were Nazis. Where did that lead? Where fundamentalism, dressed up as noble sentiment, religious, political, or scientific meets the dirt, we still have a dominator ethos: 'Some Notes on the Mania for Native Plants in Germany,' by Gert Groening and Joachim Wolschke-Bulma (Landscape Journal, Vol. II, No. 2, 1992)
@ProjectOrchard Wonderful to hear Jo speaking to reconciliation at that fundamental, existential level - peace on, with and through the Earth. Do you know @Tao_Orion's work? A salient natives-exotics integrative voice, Stateside. Both of us were blessed to run with gentle Toby when he was local.
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