A Darker Shade of Green: a Vignette

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Student: George Foles (Class 2019)
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Course Materials for Hist 511- Ecological Parties and Politics in America and Europe
Professor J. Stein
I. COURSE OUTLINE
The intention of this course is to study how Ecological politics have affected the landscape in the United States, Canada, and Europe. We will begin by studying the thinkers and theorists who came up with most important aspects of Ecological thought, namely the population theories of Malthus and Ehrlich and the "Harsh Climates, Strong Men" theories of Frank Herbert. We will continue by researching why the political Right ended up championing this cause, and how leftists and liberals responded to theories of Global Warming and Overpopulation. Finally, we will discuss how Ecological and Population theories shaped the domestic and foreign policies of the Reagan and Vander Jagt administrations, with a focus on the Birthrate Crisis of the 80's domestically and the Great East Africa Famines of 1983 and 1993, the Settler Wars in Southern Afrika, and the Subcontinental War.

II. Reading materials
An Essay on the Principle of Population- Thomas Malthus
Theodore Roosevelt and the Beginnings of Conservative Conservationism- John Byrnes
Silent Spring- Rachel Carson
Dune- Frank Herbert
The Population Bomb- Paul R. Ehrlich
Victory Over the Sun: How Tony Mazzocchi Fought for a Better Green Politics- Connor Kilpatrick
Nixonland: The Wild 4-Year Term of Richard Nixon- Rick Perlstein
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72- Hunter S. Thompson
Green Libertarianism- Barry Goldwater
WaPo Editorial: "Building a Clean Environment", by Ronald Reagan (1/13/1976)
My Wild Campaign Ride- Frank Herbert
Vanguard of Civilization: America's Role in Oranj Frei Staat, The Cape, Angola, Mozambique, Tswanalandt, and the Rhodesias- John Bolton
The Ecology Party Manifesto for the 1981 Election- Tony Whittaker and Edward Goldsmith
The OVP, The Greens, and the Battle for the Soul of Green Politics- Ralph Nader
Wanderer: David Icke, Ecology, the Liberals, and the UK's 8th Party System- Owen Jones
Famine- Charles Dolan
Wildman: The Two Careers of David Attenborough- Nick Hornby
Reason Magazine Special Issue: BIRTHRATE CRISIS (1985)
Approaches to Population Control- John H. Tanton
To The Children I Can Never Have- Ta-Neishi Coates
The Scorching of the Subcontinent- Pankaj Mishra
The Republican Party Platform 1992- Various
Malthus, Reagan, and Icke: The Greenwashing of Genocide- Michael Ignatieff
Open Air Prisons: Life in the "Reservations" of Southern Africa- Steven Pienaar
LIARS!: How the Right Uses Sham "Global Warming" Science to Attack the Working Man- Steve Bannon

III. Lecture Schedule
Lectures shall be from 10:00-12:00 AM Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 9/25-1/15, with the exception of Thanksgiving Week and Winter Vacation. Office hours shall be the same days from 3:00-6:00 PM.

IV. Grading
Attendance- 10%
Quizzes- 25%
Essays- 25%
Final Exam- 40%
 
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Yes

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Niiiiiiiice. (Well, in a horrific way, of course, but love the whole thing including the font, very Smith-Corona Electric, learned to type on one of those....)
 
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Yes said:
Niiiiiiiice. (Well, in a horrific way, of course, but love the whole thing including the font, very Smith-Corona Electric, learned to type on one of those....)
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It’s even worse than the original. But makes sense, I think. The overpopulation-obsessed tend to focus on India a lot, and of course they would back Whites in Southern Africa becoming the only people in Southern Africa (in a slow burn manner, of course).
 
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And I used Reason Magazine for birthrate scaremongering because in that era, those lovely chaps also published a Holocaust denial issue, and they loved the shit out of The Bell Curve.
 
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Windows95 said:
Oh wow.

This is really.... I can't even....
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It is the darkest timeline. And the Left have become climate deniers. So literally the positions on Climate Change are “It doesn’t exist” and “Solve it by killing mudpeople”. And of course the poor people being slaughtered aren’t contributing much to climate change. It is very bad.
 
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Just in time for Halloween, too. Not I think what the Day of the Dead is meant to represent but there you are...
 

Sam R.

Windows95 said:
Weren't the leftists IOTL were against abundant energy in the 70's like nuclear because of the fears over population?
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Which leftists?

So-called leftists in the tankie parties in and out of government were generally pro-nuclear power because of the peaceful uses in actually-existing socialism.

"Leftists" is a really purile way to approach the variety of movements and organisations in the 1970s.

Yours,
Sam R.
 

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Sam R. said:
Which leftists?

So-called leftists in the tankie parties in and out of government were generally pro-nuclear power because of the peaceful uses in actually-existing socialism.

"Leftists" is a really purile way to approach the variety of movements and organisations in the 1970s.

Yours,
Sam R.
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I didn't mean to be insulting, I was referring to this: http://environmentalprogress.org/bi...ynote-address-to-the-american-nuclear-society

I mean some of the New Left of the 1960's era.
 
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