About this Book

The roots and motivations of the underground ecoterrorism movement are presented in this insightful look at a growing activist cause. Interviews and profiles of alleged Earth Liberation Front (ELF) members, including Jeffrey "Free" Luers, currently serving a 20-year term for arson; aboveground spokesperson Leslie James Pickering; and the self-styled modern-day Robin Hood, Craig Rosebraugh, reveal ELF's basic organizational structure, philosophies, and spiritual thread of "nature worship." Emerging academic theories are presented on the future of environmental politics, detailing Western society's evolution from an exploiter of natural resources to an entity founded upon the principles of ecological democracy, natural capital, and resource sustainability.