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I'm not the first to point out the environmental themes imlad Send a noteboard - 08/10/2009 03:18:58 PM
Even a quick google will show you that. Here's a search to try: "Frank Herbert's Dune environmentalism." Plenty of results to look through buddy, and none of them from me, or anyone else on this site I'd bet.

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Environmentalism and ecology

Dune has been called the "first planetary ecology novel on a grand scale."[12] After the publication of Silent Spring by Rachel Carson in 1962, science fiction writers began treating the subject of ecological change and its consequences. Dune responded in 1965 with its complex descriptions of Arrakis life, from giant sandworms (for whom water is deadly) to smaller, mouse-like life forms adapted to live with limited water. The inhabitants of the planet, the Fremen, must compromise with the ecosystem they live in, sacrificing some of their desire for a water-laden planet in order to preserve the sandworms which are so important to their culture. Dune was followed in its creation of complex and unique ecologies by other science fiction books such as A Door into Ocean (1986) and Red Mars (1992).[12] Environmentalists have pointed out that Dune's popularity as a novel depicting a planet as a complex—almost living—thing, in combination with the first images of earth from space being published in the same time period, strongly influenced environmental movements such as the establishment of the international Earth Day.[13]

{Citation 12} ^ a b James, Edward and Farah Mendlesohn. The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. pp. 183-184. ISBN 0521016576

{Citation 13} # ^ France, Edited. Facilitating Watershed Management. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefied Publishers, 2005. p. 105 ISBN 0742533646

More like the impact the environment had on the resource. I think you may be projecting a wee bit of your own personal politics into the story.

It also wasn't about the personal issues caused by radical beliefs or the dangers of a few rogue actors so much as how powerful those beliefs could be if focused and how impossible they were to control once unleashed.

The book was very much about the Middle East, their control of the oil supply and the tenuous nature of our control of it.
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