Environmentalism's Racist History Summary

Ecology is a scientific study and analyses of the interaction between organisms and their immediate environment. Therefore, ecological crisis has been considered as the misunderstanding that exists between the environment and living organism particularly, the human race. The major ecological crisis has been associated with the environmental pollution (Westra 122). Notably, race and ethnicity have been considered to be significant contributing factors to the ecological crisis than the economic income and class. Ecological crisis has since led to racism particularly in regions occupied by different races. For instance, the affluent black communities have been associated with high toxic environmental waste sites than the poorer whites. This notion
From the article, it is apparent that Grant considered destructions of different species of both plants and animals as environmental racism. Thus, he continuously called for conservation, preservation, and safeguarding the endangered human race, animal, and plant species in the American society. According to Jedediah Purdy, a writer for the New Yorker, Grant regarded conservation and access to wildlife and public land as a measure of character. The Grant’s idea was considered the “America’s best idea” (Purdy 01). It is further noted that Grant’s initiative to conserve the endangered trees and wildlife species influence many people nationally and internationally including Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler among others. Grant further called for the protection of a human race, the “Nordic” people. He regarded the Nordic as a special natural aristocracy group of people. According to Grant, the Nordics were “marked by noble, generous instincts and a gift for political self-governance, who were being overtaken by the “Alpine” and “Mediterranean” populations” (Purdy 01); thus, they were vulnerable and required protection and preserving. Therefore, Grant’s environmental racism targeted protection, preservation, and conservation of endangered human race, wildlife, and plant
The interventions can only be achieved by initiating laws and regulations that will reduce selfish or discriminative interaction of species within an ecosystem (Westra 162). The theory of crime states that people involve themselves in criminal behaviors because they lack self-control. Therefore, initiating and enforcing conflict control mechanisms are sure ways of controlling unnecessary conflict; hence, reducing ecological racism. Therefore, Grant rallied many people who borrowed from his conservation ideas to expel the government to protect the vulnerable human races, trees, and wildlife from interference from other species within the ecosystem. They called for “…the expert governance of resources, for … managing forests … and managing the human gene pool (Purdy 01)”. For example, the Roosevelt’s National Conservation Commission recommended for “preventing “paupers” and physically unhealthy people from reproducing and warned against the “race suicide” that would follow if the country did not replenish itself with Northern European stock”, the Nordic (Purdy 01). Additionally, a National Conservation Commission was initiated to manage forest services including protecting the forest and wildlife from human encroachment. These control mechanism among other were initiated as the control measures to restrict people from engaging in different ecological