Ecology

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Ecology is a branch of biology that studies of the relationships between organisms and their environment. Ecologism, Ecological Productivism.

Ecology is the science of the natural environment and the concern to preserve it for the sake of human societies. Ecologism is a political doctrine that in the name of ecology pursues quite different aims.

The word comes from the Greek oïkos, meaning ‘home’, ‘habitat’. The ecological imperative is foundational, but not so much for preserving Gaïa, the Blue Planet (which still has four billion years ahead of it), but for the sake of preventing the human race from destroying itself by polluting its biosphere, the habitat in which it lives. It’s not nature ‘in itself’, this misty metaphysical concept (with nothing to fear from man) that needs protecting, but our species’ habitats.

Historically, humans, especially Europeans, have sought to dominate and domesticate nature — that is, the Earth’s ecosystem. But a good gardener, even when spurred by pride or greed, doesn’t do whatever he wants. The proverb imperat naturam nisi parendo is well-known. The warming of the planet and the catastrophes it’s preparing are already manifesting their harmful effects. That’s what comes from not heeding the old Latin precept. At the planetary level, ecological cataclysms are practically inevitable in the early Twenty-first century — one of the lines in the coming convergence of catastrophes. Ecological ruptures are likely to occur in the following realms: rising temperatures, desertification, deforestation, the exhaustion of fishing and agricultural reserves, the spread of viral diseases, pollution of the seas and freshwater sources, etc. Destruction in each of these realms weighs on all the others and compounds their severity.

As to ecologism, it’s a pseudo-ecology. It’s a front to conceal Trotskyism’s cosmopolitan agenda. The Greens oppose nuclear power, which is the least dangerous and least polluting of energy sources. In France and Germany their policies objectively favour the oil lobby. Their principal concern is the Third World repopulation of Europe. These ecologists are nothing but impostors. Ecology also needs to include biopolitics, social policy, and demography. A real ‘ecological society’ would obey principles related to maintaining natural equilibriums, the ethno-cultural homogeneity of the population, as well as its public health.

But how is it possible to reconcile ecology and the requirements of economic and industrial power, particularly in Europe? This is the central question. Without productivism, there’s no military independence, no industrial creativity, no dynamism. Anti-productivism, ecological fundamentalists refuse to see, is an appendage of speculative capital, for it disfavours the national labour market (in the form of outsourcing, financialisation, etc.), and instead favours the beneficiaries of various state handouts and other such parasites at the expense of our own producers and entrepreneurs. There is, however, an ecological productivism.

Someone truly concerned about ecology doesn’t ask, ‘How is it possible to produce less in order to pollute less?’, but, ‘How is it possible to produce better while polluting less?’ The answer entails both a rupture with the unified planetary model of ‘development’ and an archeofuturist turn to a ‘two-tier’ economy.

European economic power is perfectly compatible with environmentalism. On the condition that there’s a political will recognising the importance of electronuclear energy (the least polluting energy source), that this will progressively abandons the oil economy, makes use of piggyback trains, electrifies automobiles, introduces canals and other low-polluting forms of transport. Utopia? Yes, within the present framework, which lacks such a will. No, within the scope of a revolutionary project, which might follow the post-catastrophe, the post-chaos. It’s a matter of substituting an ‘economy of power’  for a ‘market economy’.

(see convergence of catastrophes; economy, organic; economy, two-tier)

	Gaïa is the Ancient Greek name for the goddess of the Earth. In recent decades, the name has been adopted by ecologists, who use it to depict the combined components of the Earth as a living organism with its different parts acting in symbiosis with one another, rather than as a resource merely intended to be exploited by humans.
	Latin: ‘one doesn’t command but rather obeys nature’.
	This was a term first coined by Jean Thiriart.

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