Climate Change And The Next Genocide (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

A good subtitle might be:  You don't know jack about Hitler!
Yale historian Timothy Snyder has shaken up what seemed the settled history of World War II and the Holocaust with a more complicated view of Hitler and his motives. Anti-Semitism, yes. Raging. But tied, crucially, to a desperate sense of limited resources. An “ecological panic,” says Snyder, that drove Hitler and the Nazis to conquest, the dissolution of states that might resist them, and to mass murder. Genocide. Now, Snyder warns, we should not think those impulses are frozen in the past. Climate change could spark a return. This hour On Point, a new warning on ecological panic and resource wars. - Tom Ashbrook
Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2015/10/13/climate-change-environmental-crisis-holocaust