I have been researching secessionism, the breakup of nations, something proposed on a universal scale by Leopold Kohr, in The Breakdown of Nations (1957). Kohr came at this thesis as a “philosophical anarchist,” rejecting the “cult of bigness.” This led him to see nations as vastly too big to be sustainable, and he thought that a breakup into smaller units would be desrirable. However, while I do not have the book, I recall that he had a chapter assessing the likelihood of this happening by voluntary action, and in a chapter with a sentence length reply said: it is not going to happen short of a total collapse. Men will go on destroying each other right until the end. He influenced less pessimistic “small is beautiful” thinkers, such as the ever-readable E. F. Schumacher, author of Small is Beautiful (1973), and Kirkpatrick Sale, all who argued for the need to return to human scale. I consider this the sensible wing of environmentalism.