Articles on eco-terrorism

) In California, construction was halted on the San Bernardino Medical Center and, later, on a neighboring subdivision to protect the Delhi Sands flower-loving fly. Near Bakersfield, Calif., a farmer was arrested in 1994 by Fish and Wildlife officers for inadvertently killing five Tipton kangaroo rats while plowing his own soil. His tractor and plow were seized as "murder weapons." Under the ESA he faced heavy fines and three years in prison.


This small article is relevant to my paper, because it shows how this construction can not only harm the animals habitat, but it can also kill them. The trucks could harm the animals by running them over, or barrying there homes underground. In the book Hoot, they are having the same problems with the construction in the area with the owls.

2) As for the eco-terrorists who destroy property and (in the case of the Unabomber) even harm or kill people, they would not be so brazen in committing terrorism were in not for the moral sanction they currently derive from the anti-human philosophy underlying environmentalism. Furthermore, governments stripped of its power to sacrifice people to nature would have more resources and resolve to track these criminals down and bring them to justice.

This relates to what is going on in the book because they are destroying the property so it cost more money to replace it, and it waste time. This shows how far the ELF or any anti eco-terrorists will go to save the environment.


3) It motivates environmentalists to protect endangered species with so much zeal that they are oblivious to the harm inflicted on people

This also relates to the book, because they are trying to safe a specific species (owls) from the construction that is going up in that area. They will destroy property, and do anything just to help the endangered species, that are in the area. They don’t want to kill there envirornment and make them go to a different place where they might not be able to adapt to.