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Eco-Warriors: Understanding the Radical Environmental Movement, Updates Edition

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Eco-Warriors was written by Rik Scarce, a journalist who lives in Washington. This book attempts (and succeeds) to help readers understand why such grups as Earth First! and such "radical" environmental groups take the actions that they do. Scarce presents as much as an objective view as possible, he stresses his sympathy for the "front-line warriors" in the battle to save the earth. Well-told stories of activists doing the only effective thing to save the environment - get to the root of the problem and stop the individuals/governments/companies that are polluting the environment or needlessly killing endangered animals for profit or lack of responsibility. The people he describes are bypassing the ineffective routes of petitioning and organizing local recycling groups, and making major impacts on international policy.

The day will come when those who sit in trees and put up blockades on logging roads in order to save 2,000 year old trees are not viewed as radicals. They in fact are heroes, not terrorists as the right wing would have you believe. This fascinating book tells the stories of those people and organizations that have worked tirelessly against those that bow down to the mighty dollar at the expense of all else.