Overview
From a powerful new voice, a hundred-year history of the link between eugenics and environmentalism in America-and the well-known naturalists who were behind it.
In the twenty-first century, the American right has not been known to champion the environment. But the conservation movement's roots run deep, growing from a forgotten group of naturalists whose love for the great outdoors was paired closely with a vehement and all-too-familiar hatred of immigration. These towering environmentalists saw immigrants and Native Americans as dangerous over-consumers of natural resources-impure people who forced the buffalo to extinction, ate songbirds, despoiled the beauty of the West. In response, they founded America's most renowned museums and zoos in tandem with its most prominent eugenicist organizations. Just as all these institutions shared a membership of the coastal upper-class, so too did they share the mission to conserve the purity of the American outdoors.
In the 1970s, their hateful ideologies were finally relegated to the fringes of the environmental movement-from which they've regrown, cropping up in the screeds of far-right extremists, Project 2025 architects, and Heritage Foundation directors. In Blood and Soil, Del Valle reveals the long American history of marrying a love of the natural world with a hatred of one's fellow man-positions that, once seen as complimentary, remain a specter over conservative ideology and conservationism alike.
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