Earth First! The Politics of Radical Environmentalism
1987 · 60 MIN · IMDB 8.9 · 16 VOTES · DIR. Chris Manes
Overview
""Earth First! - The Politics of Radical Environmentalism"" documents the rise of the controversial eco-activist group, Earth First!, as told by its founders, its admirers and its opponents, including rare interviews with its founders, Dave Foreman, Mike Roselle and Howie Wolke. Earth First! burst onto the environmental scene in the 1980s, engaging not only in civil disobedience to protect America's wilderness from exploitation, but ecotage - the destruction of heavy equipment, roads, and mills involved in deforestation. The movement become heroic to some, infamous to others, by scaling and occupying 200-foot tall old-growth trees to frustrate the plans of timber companies; and for ""tree-spiking,"" hammering iron spikes into standing trees as a threat to the machinery of any mill that dared to process it. Earth First! includes rare footage of ecoteurs engaging in their exploits on camera.
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00:00:03 "There is no King but King Ludd" -Byron
00:03:32 That´s right.
00:06:47 we were taking weaker stands and position.
00:09:15 that they do not intent to hurt anybody.
00:11:48 I´ve been an environmental activist for about 8 to 10 years.
00:13:50 And let our action set the finer point of our philosophy.
00:16:05 is pretty much given.... rally the community in a positive way
00:18:33 or ethical right to have any control over us.
00:21:09 And the one reason why we see Sierra Club as being inadequate
00:23:36 and they are digging at the basic roots of the United States and its constitution.
00:26:16 they´d like to broad brush environmentalists with.
00:28:22 about how much it will cost you to replace those.
00:31:00 or some other type of environmental harm.
00:33:28 Everybody follow the dancing spike!
00:35:46 The trees for example in tree spiking - you know
00:38:11 firewood, or whatever.
00:41:04 Renews the oxygen, in fact The forest is a habitat we depend on!
00:43:29 They have it showed down their throat.
00:46:25 no matter if it´s simple agriculture or sofisticated
00:48:25 that the uranium miners here in Arizona
00:50:30 which Earth First strongly supports.
00:52:54 Environmental groups worry about environmental health hazards to human beings.
00:54:59 Deep ecology is a philosophy that enunciates the whole idea of biocentrism
00:57:23 and greated and more beautiful than ourselves.