eco-friendly fascism : Hitler and Himmler were both strict vegetarians and animal lovers, attracted to nature mysticism and homeopathic cures, and staunchly opposed to vivisection and cruelty to animals. Himmler even established experimental organic farms to grow herbs for SS medicinal purposes. And Hitler, at times, could sound like a veritable Green utopian, discussing authoritatively and in detail various renewable energy sources (including environmentally appropriate hydropower and producing natural gas from sludge) as alternatives to coal, and declaring water, winds and tides as the energy path of the future.32 Heideggers critique of anthropocentric humanism, his call for humanity to learn to let things be, his notion that humanity is involved in a play or dance with earth, sky, and gods, his meditation on the possibility of an authentic mode of dwelling on the earth, his complaint that industrial technology is laying waste to the earth, his emphasis on the importance of local place and homeland, his claim that humanity should guard and preserve things, instead of dominating them -- all these aspects of Heideggers thought help to support the claim that he is a major deep ecological theorist.
Posted on: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 16:56:50 +0000
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