purity

Sierra Club founder John Muir rhapsodized about the purity of wilderness, supporting the push to protect Yosemite’s lands from the “dirty” influence of the native tribes who inhabited it.

The Nazis used some of the same references, braiding environmental purity and racial purity.

Tanton’s belief that mass immigration would supplant white America had one particular focus: He saw it as a threat to the country’s ecology and ultimately to the consensus among environmentalists about preserving the purity of that ecology.

To Tarrant, conserving the purity of lands was indistinguishable from conserving white European ideals and beliefs.

There’s a purity to that approach.