Eco-terrorism: A Developing Threat

[Abishai100]

Modern activism surrounding environment protection has yielded passionate curiosity about ecological management in sectors of science, politics, and even art.

However, it is also breeding a rather dangerous underground sentiment of radical eco-activism that is drawing attention to concerns about eco-terrorism and eco-vigilantism.

William Powell's "The Anarchist Cookbook" (1971) and Edward Abbey's "The Monkey Wrench Gang" (1975) raised eyebrows and drew attention to a modern post-industrialization interest in grassroots politics, street-talk politics, and subtle forms of vigilantism. The popularity of the vigilante group the Hell's Angels crystallized this interest.

Algeria, a member of OPEC, has developed handsome eco-friendly wind farms and is arguably ahead of the USA in this renewable energy sector, however, joint-ventures between OPEC and Western oil companies such as Shell and BP (British Petroleum) do not receive much talk. This lack of globalization development opens doors to secular acts of eco-activism fervor.

If eco-activism fervor is not adequately coordinated with state-coordinated economic initiatives or incentives, radicals may find fertile ground for eco-terrorism and receive eco-vigilantism megaphones.

We need to talk more about habitat-construction creativity. Engineers and designers have been developing progressive ideas about eco-friendly plastic residential areas and eco-conscious expensive tree-houses.

American audiences have already been tuning into the street-vigilantism justice-fantasy Batman (DC Comics) comic book adapted television series "Gotham" (Fox TV) which presents among its gallery of city nemeses a bizarre eco-terrorist named Poison Ivy.

Political chatter must keep pace with street-talk and art to curb eco-terrorism as a new modern era populism threat.





Wind power - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

 

[Luddly Neddite]

"developing"?

Where have you been?

Did you happen to notice the dates of the two publications you mentioned?

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Can't say I'm as worried about, or against eco-terror as I am religious or political terror. Way things are going climate change is gonna wipe us out, and talking about it and trying to legislate our way out of peril hasn't worked at all so far. Unfortunately, violence does work as our very country can attest. We didn't all sit down at a table with the British and hammer out our differences, we took up arms and started shooting them.

 

[Abishai100]

Bank of Sugar

Is it populism fervor of the modern age (i.e., Facebook) that creates fertile ground for vigilantism-sentimentalism catalyzed eco-terrorism noise, or is it multi-cultural confluence that creates a natural paranoia about resource-extraction biases?

I really like the Hollywood (USA) movie "The Toxic Avenger" (1984) because it speaks to populist concerns about resource-dominion hysteria.

As long as there is continued dialogue about resource economics, then eco-terrorism should not develop into a bizarre grievance.





Poison Ivy - Batman Wiki

 

[Abishai100]

The Face of the Radical: Leatherheads


The numerous mobile phones out there reduce the demand for more wooden telephone poles and regular landlines.

The countless correspondences made with email reduce the demand for paper envelope mail.

The many designer tree-houses being developed for adults is promoting ecology lifestyle integration.

The seminal American psychosis horror film avatar Leatherface, a cannibal who wields a chainsaw, is therefore a messenger of the modern era: "Should I use this sophisticated power tool to cut down trees or stalk people who pollute the Earth?"

Vigilantism and vandalism have been a modern problem, and the modern eco-terrorist literally can draw inspiration from anywhere, a point made by Edward Abbey in "The Monkey Wrench Gang" (1975).

When there is no apparent God protecting the Earth, what will human defenders look like?







The Monkey Wrench Gang - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

 

[Where_r_my_Keys]

Can't say I'm as worried about, or against eco-terror as I am religious or political terror. Way things are going climate change is gonna wipe us out, and talking about it and trying to legislate our way out of peril hasn't worked at all so far. Unfortunately, violence does work as our very country can attest. We didn't all sit down at a table with the British and hammer out our differences, we took up arms and started shooting them.

Yeah... the changing climate has really screwed humanity up. Remember the Saharan Jungle? GONE! TOTALLY GONE MAN! It's a DESERT NOW!

Of course that happened a few million years before a single SUV ever got there. So... it seems like we probably have enough time to adjust.

The thing to remember here is that AGW is a pathetic hoax which worries only the gullible and the stupid... and no one else cares.

 

[Abishai100]

One Hour Photo

Let's look at it another way---

Imagine your college professor delivers to you the following speech:
"According to the data, there is no confirmation that Earth's climates are changing or shifting unnaturally or because of manmade pollution. However, there's no reason that such 'paranoia propaganda' can not actually motivate the modern industrialist or today's students (tomorrow's leaders) to think constantly about industrialization efficiency."

This hypothetical professor did not say that global warming is real; he/she simply suggested that imagining that it is real can actually be a constructive or useful logistical approach to economic management of industrialization.

If we can imagine that manmade pollution-catalyzed Earth ecosystem deterioration is real, then certainly there are impressionable youth out there who will exacerbate such conversational logic into fanaticism.

During the Algerian Revolution, Muslim freedom-fighters recruited veiled Islamic women to carry supplies, message, and even munitions/bombs for them, since these women were not as vigorously screened at French colonial security posts at pedestrian sites in Algeria.

The recruiting of Muslim women was a radical and unusual tactic, and it certainly revealed the extreme lengths Algerian freedom-fighters would go to in order to secure their positions.

If Muslims who proclaim themselves as austere are willing to take steps that seem to defy their own conducts of behavior regarding gender privacy and austerity, how much more are liberal Americans willing to connect eco-pollution hype with eco-terrorism chatter?

That's the danger in my opinion, and the media feeds it.

If this thought-process is not readily accessible, then why are vigilantism-themed American comic books the basis of countless American TV programs and Hollywood (USA) movies such as "Gotham" (Fox TV) and "The Dark Knight Rises" (2012)?

Maybe Poison Ivy (DC Comics) is the new Mother Goose.

 

[Abishai100]

Art and Anthropology


In the 1980s, incendiary New York graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat created wondrous works signifying a deep meditation on the modern-age angst towards urbanization hysteria.

Since then, comic books have become a new form of 'circulated populism graffiti' in an alternative type of art market --- the layman art market. Comic books present images and stories in colloquialized fashion so as to reach a wider audience, an audience hungry for art that is easy-to-digest and simply fun to gloss.

The comic book character Poison Ivy (DC Comics) is a super-nemesis in a fictional place called Gotham City which is seething with corruption and urbanization maladies (i.e., crime syndicates, bribery, terrorism, criminal insanity, etc.). Poison Ivy was once a respected botanist until she decided to become a radical eco-terrorist, spreading mania and mayhem with eco-toxins in the name of anti-industrialization consumerism revolution but in a manner that dangerously borders on criminal insanity.

Poison Ivy (DC Comics) is the new graffiti art that speaks to today's anxieties about urbanization-related human problems (i.e., industrial pollution, smog, etc.).

We can re-present such an art avatar as symbolic of a new kind of social worry: eco-terrorism.





Basquiat (Wikipedia)

Poison Ivy (Wikipedia)