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Article: Nature and Nationalism: Right-Wing Ecology and the Politics of Identity in Contemporary Germany.
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- Ethics & International Affairs
- Article date:
- April 1, 2001
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Nature and Nationalism: Right-Wing Ecology and the Politics of Identity in Contemporary Germany, Jonathan Olsen (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999), 208 pp., $45 cloth.
In his classic 1949 essay, "The Land Ethic," Aldo Leopold argues for the adoption of a community-based ecological ethic that would establish the interests of natural systems as the main focus of environmental policy. "A thing is right," he contends, "when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community." As an inspiration for many contemporary environmental activists, policymakers, and philosophers, Leopold's work poses an important question: Could this ...