Now this is interesting---thinking of environmentalism in terms of Nietzsche's revaluation of values in a nihilistic world.

The Differance Engine asks: 'how might ecological footprint (re)duction amount to a revaluation of values?'

We can connect this question to issues like this and to this: reducing the ecological footprint in our cities. Or in relation to global warming.

The Differance Engine suggests a linkage back to Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, where Nietzsche says that "Man is something that should be overcome" and he asks: ,"what have you done to overcome him?" The Differance Engine asks: 'Environmentally, what could this mean? Moreover, what could this mean in itself?' The interpretation is along these lines of an overcoming that involves a shattering of statutes in which:

the creator represents an outsider, an outlaw reviled by those standing in judgement, the good and just who "hate the creator most: him who breaks the law-tables and the old values, the breaker – they call him the law-breaker"... Could this dramatic persona, this outsider, be conceived of as the environmentalist, the one who practices minimising their ecological footprint? If so, perhaps not intentionally: is there not an injunction from the environmentalist for everyone to change, to belong? In this, does Nietzsche, like the environmentalist, introduce beyond the personal and ethical an extension into politics?

Well, I've always read Nietzsche in terms of the self-assertion of the human will and the will to power as instrumentally appropriating the earth. Maybe I should re-read Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra in the context of global warming.