The process that promised to extirpate nature releases it in crisis and war.

Evidence

Then, however, nature as true self-preservation is released by the very process which promised to extirpate it, in the individual as in the collective destiny of crisis and armed conflict. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 47

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Demographic explosion and industrialization forced sovereignty to yield to biopower. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 7132; War and national crisis have both fueled and sapped the environmental movement’s political force — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 1093; The state of nature and state of war are distinct conditions — John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, 27
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Demographic explosion and industrialization forced sovereignty to yield to biopower. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 7132; War and national crisis have both fueled and sapped the environmental movement’s political force — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 1093; The state of nature and state of war are distinct conditions — John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, 27

Broader Connections

• The state of nature and state of war are distinct conditions #complicates (0.74) — John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, 27