January 7, 2008
Nietzsche, Will to Power ( section] 866):
Once we possess that common economic management of the earth that will soon be inevitable [what we would now call 'economic globalization'], humankind will be able to find its best meaning as machine in the service of this [global] economy--as a tremendous lockwork, composed of ever smaller, ever more subtly "adapted gears"; as an ever-growing superfluity of all dominating and commanding elements: as a whole of tremendous force, whose individual factors represent only minimal forces, minimal values.
It's a suprising passage as Nietzsche's major theme was how to avoid decadence (or the inability to generate new values), cultural degeneration, and the "advent of nihilism," and not specifically how to avoid environmental destruction and "ecocide."
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Strange indeed One would have imagined Nietzsche to be in favour of a dissoloution of such things.