Thursday, April 28, 2011

I have been thinking a lot about ecoterrorism lately.  It occurred to me that Nature (capital N) creates her own ecoterrorism...isn't a terrible tornado, a tsunami, a fire caused by a lightening strike, etc ecoterrorism? Maybe it is called by another name (Act of God?) but it destroys what it has built or what exists already or things man makes.
Along this train of thought, a beaver is an ecoterrorist when he builds a dam which floods a valley.  Is a flock of Canadian Geese flying into a jet engine and causing a plane to crash an act of terrorism?

I know it is not the same thing but then it is. The difference is that Nature acts with some force Man does not understand and someone who blows up a controversial bridge knows EXACTLY what he is doing, with the purpose of being destructive.  

But EITHER is ecodestruction...for whatever reason.  Both need to be dealt with! Just a thought.  Okay, I just had a couple of beers. (Rare event for me.)