Nationalism vs. Nature

​Bruce E. Johansen is a Frederick W. Kayser research professor emeritus for Communication and Native American Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA, where he taught and researched from 1982 to 2019, then retired with emeritus status. Johansen has earned a national and international reputation as a scholar and interpreter of Native American history and present-day concerns, as well as environmental issues, most notably global warming and toxic chemical pollution. Johansen’s writing has been published, debated, and reviewed in many academic venues, among them the William and Mary Quarterly, American Historical Review, Current History, and Nature, as well as in many popular newspapers and magazines, such as The New York Times and The National Geographic. An expert and prolific writer on the topic, he has published several books with a related thematic focus, such as Environmental Racism in the United States and Canada (Praeger, 2020) and Seattle’s El Centro de la Raza: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Living Laboratory (Lexington, 2020).

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Crises of Climate & Nationalism: Then and Now.- Chapter 3. Nationalism, Politics, and Money: Autocrats, Oligarchs, Ex-Presidents, Czars, Manifest Destiny, Fascists, Rich ex-Communists, Uber-nationalists, Reich und Volk, Nazis, The KKK, et al..- Chapter 4. Nationalism as a Lethal Malady.- Chapter 5. Gun Fetish Nation.- Chapter 6. White Pride, World-Wide: The Nationalistic Roots of Racial Hatred.- Chapter 7. How Hot, How High, How Soon? Climate Changes to Come.- Chapter 8. The Carbon Footprint of War.- Chapter 9. Conclusion: A Future to Love – or Loathe?.