Earth First!An organization with a social movement. What issues concern them? What are their goals/objectives? What means to achieve their goals?

Earth First!

"The planet is about to break out with fever, indeed it may already have,

and we [human beings] are the disease. We should be at war

with ourselves and our lifestyle."

-Thomas Lovejoy, tropical biologist

Now, more than ever, the Earth is going through a critical moment in which we are witnessing the drastic reduction in biodiversity on this planet. This is accompanied by an increase in species extinction. One of the United States' biggest problems right now is the loss of the wilderness. This problem is due to an expanding human population, increased demand for material resources and physical space. "The immediate source of ecological crisis is capitalism. Capitalism is a cancer in the biosphere."

Dave Foreman, a radical American environmentalist, developed the idea that the government agencies, as well moderate private organizations, could not and would not stand up to the powerful forces attempting to destroy America's environment.

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The Earth seen from Apollo 17.

English: Julia Butterfly Hill

Therefore, in 1979 he becomes one of the founders of Earth First!, a group of environmental activists who work (often at great personal cost) to save the natural world from human depredations. Their motto is "No compromise in defense of mother Earth" and these environmentalists use a wide range of tactics to protect the wilderness ranging from grassroots organizing and involvement in the legal process to civil disobedience and monkey wrenching. Monkey wrenching techniques include such acts as "spiking" trees so that they could not be cut down, "munching" logging roads using nails, toppling high voltage power lines and other subversive practices.

Earth First! is not a cohesive group, but a platform for people who share similar philosophies to work under. Earth First! is not an organization, but a movement. There are no "members," just "Earth First!ers." It's a belief in biocentalism that life (Earth)...