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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread
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To: James Calladine who wrote (3262)4/6/2004 11:13:18 AM
From: Crocodile  Read Replies (2) of 36917
 
Thanks for posting that essay. This paragraph sums up one of the most important aspects of the struggle between industry and environmentalists. Having rapidly pillaged all of the "easy targets", industry is now forced to wrestle for access to protected wilderness and conservation lands, and for the territorial lands of indigenous people around the world.

Partly as a result of the changes they have engineered, partly as a result of the depletion of natural resources, the corporations now appear to be more vulnerable to environmental protest than they are to industrial action. Having exhausted the most accessible reserves of oil, minerals, timber, fish and freshwater, they are now forced into ever wider conflicts with the local people whose land and water they must seize to maintain production. As a result, the theft of resources and the ensuing pollution have become major political issues almost everywhere.
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