Interview: Author Elizabeth Nickson Discusses her new book, Eco-Fascists

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Ed Driscoll

10/18/12

 

Jonah Goldberg brought H.G. Wells’ meme of “Liberal Fascism” out of the memory hole of the 1930s and into the 21st century, and as he noted, environmentalism has long been a key component of that ideology. Veteran journalist Elizabeth Nickson, who was the European Bureau chief of Life magazine, in addition to contributing to Time, the Guardian, Vogue, Harper’s and numerous other MSM magazines, which typically have at least one boilerplate “green”-themed issue a year, found that out the hard way, hence the title of her new book, Eco-Fascists: How Radical Conservationists Are Destroying Our Natural Heritage:

 

An investigative reporter documents the destructive impact of the environmental movement in North America and beyond.

 

When journalist Elizabeth Nickson sought to subdivide her twenty-eight acres on Salt Spring Island in the Pacific Northwest, she was confronted by the full force and power of the radical conservationists who had taken over the local zoning council. She soon discovered that she was not free to do what she wanted with her land, and that in the view of these arrogant stewards it wasn’t really hers at all. Nickson’s long, frustrating, and eyeopening encounter with these zealots started her on a journey to investigate and expose the hugely destructive impact of the environmental movement on ordinary people and communities across North America—and the world.

 

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