EcoTerror: The Violent Agenda to Save Nature: The World of the Unabomber [Paperback]

Ron Arnold (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2010

Conviction records of radical environmentalists! Detailed lists of sabotage against people and property! Names of the guilty groups-no punches pulled! EcoTerror author Ron Arnold has long challenged the assumptions and rhetoric of organized evironmentalism. In this extensively documented book he now exposes and entire underground movement of violence to save nature. The Unabomer used radical environmental publications to target his last two victims, Thomas Mosser and Gil Murray. The vicious Animal Liberation Front maintains a World Wide Web site that brags over 600 crimes committed in the name of 'animal rights'. Earth Firsters use a tactic called 'decoupling' to hide their involvement in 'monkeywrenching'- sabotage against essential production. Protest demonstrations against logging in the Pacific Northwest cost the taxpayer over $1million a year in emergency law enforcement. The overwhelming majority of the victims attacked by ecoterrorists are small family companies, not big corporations. Big-money foundations give millions to smear anyone who stands up to expose ecoterrorists and the moral bankruptcy of big eco-groups. Mainstream environmentalists incite underground violence to save nature by promoting hate against industrialized civilization rather than offering respect for its benefits and practical solutions for its problems.

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About the Author

Ron Arnold is an award-winning writer and advocate of free enterprise. He testified before Congressional hearings on ecoterrorism and is sought by security experts for his insights into environmentalist crimes.

Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Merril Press (January 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0939571188
• ISBN-13: 978-0939571185
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,095,292 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Same old tired right-wing "wise use" rhetoric, March 18, 2006

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Dragynbane (Middle Earth) - See all my reviews

This review is from: EcoTerror: The Violent Agenda to Save Nature: The World of the Unabomber (Paperback)

I read this book and found it to be a completely enjoyable COMEDY. It is hilarious. This is the unbelievably unreasonable anti-earth, anti-nature point of view of the logging, mining, fishing, land development and other destructive "resource" industries. It is written by a staunch Christian zealot. Just check out his website. Ron Arnold does not hide the fact he believes humans have every right to "extract" the heck out of the planet because it is "our god-given right" according to Genesis. Read and weep, gentle earth treaders, but you get to know the mindset of the other side pretty well.
Please note: a laudatory review here is by Eureka, CA resource industry lawyer Andy Stunich. For the record, and you can easily Google this or check out the archives of the local newspapers (Times-Standard, the right-wing Eureka Reporter, also the lefty North Coast Journal), Mr. Stunich represents tree climber Eric Schatz who is hired by logging companies to "extract" earth defenders from ancient growth redwoods. Need I say more?
Birds of a feather ....

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A horrible piece of right wing tripe., December 3, 2010

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Abbeyphile (Earth) - See all my reviews

This review is from: EcoTerror: The Violent Agenda to Save Nature: The World of the Unabomber (Paperback)

This is a mash-up of right-wing, anti-environmental propaganda and quotes and research taken way out of context. How do I know? My own work was used inappropriately in this book. Save your money.

17 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Fabricates facts to make his case., August 21, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: EcoTerror: The Violent Agenda to Save Nature: The World of the Unabomber (Paperback)

Ron Arnold's agenda is clear to any reader, even if his motives are not. He wants to discredit and undermine the movement to conserve nature. In the course of pursuing this agenda he makes leaps of record and logic that, when detected, leave him and his book flailing at air. I'm happy to give credit for some new and exhaustive research included in Ecoterror, including interesting history about forerunners to Earth First! and other environmental groups. But Arnold conspicuously overreaches in trying to link mainstream conservationists to a violent agenda and to the Unabomber. Perhaps this is what one would expect from a book of this sort, but Arnold goes overboard. For instance, in trying to link me (your reviewer) and my respected organization to a dark undercurrent of thought and action, he resorted to false and libelous statements which he has since been forced to withdraw in an errata sheet which can be found on his web site. If you read Ecoterror, do so with healthy skepticism.