There has been prolific use of a (relatively) new term; namely the term “eco-terrorist”. But despite its frequent use to describe environmental protesters and demonstrators, the word is being used completely incorrectly. The word needs to be reclaimed to be used to describe the real “eco-terrorists”. It has to be noted that the use of the term has always been used to describe environmental protesters and demonstrators, and often to describe those that engage in civil disobedience.
There is a strong propensity for the right wing and centrist media outlets to describe environmental activists as eco-terrorists. The reality is that the description of an eco-terrorist (as an amalgam of ecology and terrorist) better suits the heavy polluting industries and the politicians that support such industries. It describes the corporate behaviour that lobbies for continued access to some of the world’s most precious and rare old-growth forests for the sole purpose of felling the entire lot. Indeed the very corporate behaviours that brought on the global financial crisis are the same behaviours driving the need to dig up and burn off the environment.
The real eco-terrorists are the polluters and the sympathesizers for the unregulated and unfettered destruction of limited, natural resources. The real eco-terrorists are the polluters and the sympathesizers that manipulate and exploit communities in order to continue the unregulated and unfettered destruction of limited, natural resources.
Sure it is easy to label the more radical elements of the environmental and green groups as eco-terrorists; but that’s just it, it’s easy to use labels. When you break the term down, it reveals the companies, think tanks, political parties and industry associations by virture of supporting, funding and apologising for ongoing heavy polluters in the face of scientific evidence of the damage done by heavy polluters are the real eco-terrorists.
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