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

Arnold provides a valuable detailed account of how eco-terrorism got its foothold in the United States and to what end some environmental vigilantes are willing to go to affect social change. It is only by fully understanding what drives eco-terrorism that we as a community can expect to prevent the considerable social and economic harm caused when eco-terrorists take the law into their own hands.

In dealing with radical environmentalist, I felt this book was right on. I have had the pleasure of dealing with their actions myself and this book explained my experiences to a T. The theory behind the radical enviros actions is compassionately explained in Mr. Arnolds analysis of them. I recommend this book to anyone who has ever been terrorized by or curious about the true objectives of the movement.

Ron Arnold's book is well-researched, well-documented, balanced and surprisingly interesting. Once you get past the sensationalist title, the book is professionally balanced and objectively written. The author avoids categorizing all Earth Firsters as terrorists; rather, he merely points out the obvious: The movement has an upper echelon cadre of radicals that may espouse non-violence as useful propaganda, but in reality advocates and uses violence to achieve the movement's goals. Using Earth First!'s own rhetoric, reliable outside evidence and sound analysis from social scientists and terrorism experts, Ron Arnold exposes the frightening reality that is Earth First! These are not merely a group of harmless tree huggers, although many certainly are. Rather, Earth First! has a hard core, anarchist element that comprises a dangerous, decentralized organization with an apocalyptic, self-hatred view of humanity and a cult like worship of deep ecology that should alarm rational people.This book should be required reading.

This book is a great exposition on violence perpetrated in the name of the environment. It exposes Ted Kaczynski's connections to the environmental movement and goes in-depth into the detrimental effect his acts have had upon innocent individuals targeted simply to further a pseudo-intellectual agenda.