This is, of course, right from the start a proof of Godwin’s Law. Someone’s going to mention the Nazis at some point, so why not start out that way? Yet there is a truth in here, that there’s a strong connection between the policies some environmentalists urge upon us and the reason that Germany invaded Poland twice last century.

In both WWI and WWII there was a desire for “Lebensraum.” Something which was, at its economic root, the desire for enough land to feed the people and thus be, become, or remain a Great Power.