Eco-Sabotage: Right or Wrong -> Monkey Wrench Gang Essay

My book was called Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines by Paul Fleischman. I learned many things from this book, one of them being that companies use materials to make their products that are detrimental to the environment, and harmful to the workers or animals involved in making the product. These corporations are able to get away with it because they have a lot of money, and that means that they can pay people to release propaganda saying that their product is not harmful to anything, and advertisements saying that the people who are speaking out against their product are radical environmentalists. They can also create fake environmental groups that supposedly support the company's product. They can also influence politicians

The corporate deconstruction of green – green crimes are the result of behaviours displayed by groups or a single individual. Corporations play an integral role in the term green because of the influence they have on various environmental movement groups through donations, funding and political strongholds.

Forests control the amounts of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere therefore contributing to global warming. However we as a planet have a problem… deforestation.

This sabotage resulted in a severe injury to a saw mill worker in Louisiana. Foreman’s response to the situation was hardly sympathetic. Foreman has plenty of followers backing him up including reputable authors on environmentalism. Berlau wraps up the essay by telling the readers that those who use violence are solely responsible for their actions. He believes society has an obligation to discourage those speaking overstated rhetoric and false information. Berlau believes that statements involving anti-human rhetoric are the most destructive statements. Berlau ends the essay by offering solutions as he sees fit. He believes that humans should be allowed to change the landscape and leave their mark for future generations to

The biodiversity of the tropical rainforest is so immense that less than 1 percent of its millions of species have been studied by scientists for their active constituents and their possible uses. When an acre of tropical rainforest is lost, the impact on the number of plant and animal species lost and their possible uses is staggering. Scientists estimate that we are losing more than 137 species of plants and animals every single day because of rainforest deforestation.

In the era of capitalism and fierce corporate rivalries, the agenda for any major corporation is likely to prioritize profits over social problems such as environmental degradation. An example that sheds light on the conflict between human interests and environmental responsibility is the controversial approval of the oil drilling in the Northern Slope region of Alaska and the drilling that has already

I have often heard the excuse that it would cost too much for cooperations to clean up after themselves, that the expenditure would lead to extensive layoffs, and would be detrimental to the economy of the corporation. In a way I could understand how this could be true and didn’t see a solution to the problem. I thought that it was either/or; one thing or the other. On page 297 it says that “An alliance between environmentalists and labor organizers is essential. People need a livelihood as well as good environmental conditions, and the two are not mutually exclusive.” Exclusivity is a boundary that I think we all need to cross. Too often we forget that everything is linked and that one thing effects another. This can be applied to our everyday lives as

Corporate selfishness and greed have been the motivation behind deforestation, pollution, and utter disregard for nature. These actions have been happening for centuries, but now it is creeping into the greater Tampa Bay Area. In Sarasota, a popular bird watching site named Celery Fields is being threatened by an industrial recycling company. This company had planned on destroying Celery Fields for their own personal gain, but luckily, a cluster of protesters has stepped up to oppose this avariciousness. With an active group taking action, the need for alert is low, but the need for awareness is as high as ever. To prevent further situations similar to this, we must take a look at some examples of how truly vile corporations have been to nature

To a certain extent, I believe that ecological activists need to be supported , as they create awareness on everything concerning the environment but when they start using violence and hurting others it becomes unethical.Lumbering which is the trade of cutting, preparing and selling timber results in the degradation of forests, the activity is always done through saw mills. The industry should be controlled and regulated to reduce the destruction of forests, and replanting the trees they harvest should be part of the industry so future generations can also enjoy them.

There are several corporations causing harm to the environment through criminal activity that continually is unpunished. The environment is facing harm through food contamination, air pollution, ocean dumping, and water pollution. Companies are successfully committing these crimes by gaining the support of the government through illegal marketing.

Corporations and the government are the bad guys in all of the films in the Unit. Crude, Food Inc., Koyaanisqatsi, Gasland, and Fuel all have one thing in common, both caused by industrial production lead by companies and corporations. Every single film in this Unit shows different stages of the environment. The environment is pure and undisrupted by human and they hit us with the reality that the future is toxic and bleak if humans continue abusing the environment. We all should be held accountable for the destruction of the environment and nature, where or not we feel directly or indirectly

Rainforests are being destroyed at a rate of 150 acres a minute. If this fact doesn’t astonish you then understand that that means a total of 78 Million acres a year. While this is in itself a horrible act it is also causing many species to go extinct thanks to loss of habitat. The main culprits of this are large corporations such as McDonald’s and Burger King. The greed of large corporations leads them to mistreat earth’s largest and most inhabited forests, leaving many species struggling for survival.

Raids in the Rainforest demonstrated a conflict conservationists face. Before watching the video, I thought problems surrounding the use of protected areas and environmental regulations were caused mostly by large companies and ignorant people wanting money and power, but I now realize this is a U.S.-centric view. Workers in countries which are underdeveloped compared to the U.S. may not have as much respect for protected areas because they need to focus more on providing for their families and generally surviving than preserving nature. The video also showed the unfortunate reality that policies don’t stop true criminals. Although some of the people found damaging the protected area were given fines, posted rules didn’t stop people from illegally

Opponents to making Ecocide an international crime argue that it could hypothetically criminalise the whole of humanity, as we are all to blame in one way or another, due to our constant usage of technology. There are then some parts within the idea of Ecocide that suggest naturally occurring elements, with critics therefore arguing that it would therefore be impossible to criminalise an act that was not anybody’s fault in particular. There is also the argument that there will be resistance from up and coming powers in the world, and then I mention the powers that are the BRICs, which helps to show that countries that rely on major resources to grow will be more wary when accepting it as a crime.

Ethics is the study of what is right and wrong in human conduct. Environmental ethics studies the effects of human’s moral relationships on the environment and everything within it (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2008). The ethical principles that govern those relations determine human duties, obligations, and responsibilities with regard to the Earth’s natural environment and all of the animals and plants that inhabit it (Taylor, 1989). The purpose of this paper is to reveal environmental issues that are threatening the existence of life on Earth, and discus our social obligations to refrain from further damaging our environment, health and life for future generations. I will discus the need for appropriate actions and the ethical