Enviros embrace James Lee « Green Hell Blog

While Lee clearly popped his cork, there are apparently others out there whose corks are under similar pressure — and it probably doesn’t help that Grist writers and other eco-wackos (like Al Gore) have been urging such actions as civil disobedience (Lee had earlier tried and failed with nonviolent protest), criminal trespass and war crimes trials for fossil fuel industry executives. Let’s not forget the terrorist activities of groups like Earth Liberation Front.

Grist and the rest of the radical green movement may try to distance themselves from Lee, but wasn’t he really just someone who took the greens’ anti-people gloom-and-doomism at face value and acted on it?

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