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Warriors: Eco-Warriors

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I’ve been thinking about that sickness, that adjunctivitus, that Consumopithecus disease of more and more info-tainment and dynamo market news and upbeat stories on the next great gizmo thing spewing on the Internet, on NPR, on Jon Stewart, on NBC and every new app to make Americans the smartest consumers on the planet. It’s a disease that has infected journalism way beyond what I could have ever guessed in 1975 when I was a J-student and student reporter. We are the infected, gizmo zombies, whose minds think the revolution will be covered on Tweets, who believe the worldwide web will be salvation, who want to work from home while doing zumba and hot yoga while sipping prairie grass juice smoothies. We are the people collectively who have zero idea who Bradley Manning is or who the actors are in the war against the greens part two — The New Red Is Green.

This disproportionate, heavy-handed government crackdown on the animal rights and environmental movements, and the reckless use of the word “terrorism,” is often called the Green Scare.

Much like the Red Scare and the communist witch hunts of the 40s and 50s, the Green Scare is using one word—this time, it’s “terrorist”—to push a political agenda, instill fear, and chill dissent. And much like the Red Scare, the Green Scare is operating on three levels: legal, legislative, and what we’ll call extra-legal, or scare-mongering.

It’s great DV has Zeese and Flower’s piece, “Gang Green or Fresh Green,” up and running. This war against the greens was well documented by David Helvarg, a guest of mine both on my radio show and when I brought him to the college I was teaching at in Spokane as part of a yearlong theme on sustainability, to include Winona La Duke, Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility, Sonia Shah, James Howard Kunstler, and a woman who worked on water shortage issues with David Pimentel of Cornell, among others from the region like Save Our Wild Salmon, the Lands Council and the Selkirk Conservation Group.

A Shadowy backlash against environmentalists has begun to emerge in America, the most visible element of which calls itself the “Wise Use” movement. Among its stated goals are the unregulated use of timber, oil, gas, minerals, and range land, and the abolition of all environmental laws and agencies. In this first in depth investigation of the “Wise Use” backlash, author David Helvarg visits rallies, conferences, and confrontations that are the fronts in its war against the greens. Helvarg shows the dimensions of this struggle as it is being waged in the courts; in the media, through popular mouthpieces like Rush Limbaugh and sympathetic coverage in influential newspapers such as the New York Times; in the heretical claims of the movement’s “counterscience”; and in the growing number of physical confrontations and threats used against environmental activists. Helvarg also documents the failure of the FBI to prevent such violence.

We could look at Helvarg’s last paragraph in a Grist article as sort of folksy in today’s Brand Barrack Obama and the Neoliberalization of the Globe.

Our choice lies either in surrender to the nihilistic backlash that says, “Take what you can get while you can get it,” or in our rededication to a faith that says we can still leave our kids and future generations a good life in a good land. The outcome hangs upon the understanding, heart, and will of the American people. It’s a thin reed of hope, especially in the wake of the 2004 election. Still, it’s worked so far.

We could look at Helvarg’s last paragraph in a Grist article as sort of folksy in today’s Brand Barrack Obama and the Neoliberalization of the Globe.

Our choice lies either in surrender to the nihilistic backlash that says, “Take what you can get while you can get it,” or in our rededication to a faith that says we can still leave our kids and future generations a good life in a good land. The outcome hangs upon the understanding, heart, and will of the American people. It’s a thin reed of hope, especially in the wake of the 2004 election. Still, it’s worked so far.