Opponents of the radical environmentalist movement and it's steadfast promotion of the fundamental restructuring of human civilization have long argued that the reek of National Socialism clings to the modern Green movement. Mark Musser made that very case here at American Thinker.As Mark points out; "From his memoirs, Albert Speer recalled that many of his German compatriots sought what he described "a close contact with nature."  He went on to say that their love affair with the great outdoors "was not merely a romantic protest against the narrowness of middle-class life. We were also escaping from the demands of a world growing increasingly complicated."  It was in fact a world which they largely disdained, full of varied responsibilities and demands of them which they would rather not do.   In their mind, such an 'artificial' world could be overcome through mountain climbing, "often, from the mountain tops, we looked down upon a gray layer of cloud over the...(Read Full Post)