Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@HaddenTurner @affinitytalks 2/ I take your warning seriously, mind you. When “creation” becomes the new savior, we haven't escaped idolatry, we’ve merely swapped altars. Displace Christ, and creation-care readily converts into the perils of a political project. The evidence, clear and long-standing.

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There's organic and then there's organic. Hinge the crude brutalism of Blood and Soil nativism to "Only Green Nationalism Is True Nationalism", and wake up to 'extre me population control measures' as a dead cert. Extinction tyrannies do not an alternative make. Break the spell. This, by the way, is how I expect the American right will eventually figure out how to embrace climate change policy: when the issue is framed for them as a matter of protecting the racial and economic privileges of white Americans. You heard it first here. 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. Tweet: Heck, all the pols are at it now. Take the way environmentalism is being aggressively co-opted by modern nationalists. I would say Christo-fascists, but the trend's now transcultural. Modi's at it, for example. Lunatic anthropocentrism, a disease of exile, really, isn't it? Image (content unchanged but reworked graphically to fit more proportionately in image): Nick Routledge Not so new. "Respect for divine creation is the measure of all culture" was claimed by no less than Heinrich Himmler - and is now very commonly embraced and employed by white supremacists and neo-Nazis throughout northern Europe.

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