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1	When Resistance is Not Enough: The Role of Ecotage in Radical Environmentalism Brown, Kris R 01 January 2010 (has links) As a starting point, I've created a simple, five step argument for my view on humanity's environmental responsibility. The first four steps are premises upon which I will elaborate to some degree over the course of this paper, and the fifth step is a conclusion that should necessarily follow from the premises if they are true. 1) Humans are currently threatening the earth's viability as a habitat for living thing. 2) Humans have a duty not to threaten the earth's viability as a habitat for living things. 3) Our duty not to threaten the viability of the earth as a habitat for living things is stronger than our duty to obey the law. 4) The exclusive use of traditional, legal attempts to change patterns of human behavior to eliminate their threat to the earth's viability as a habitat for living things is and will always be ineffective. 5) Therefore, when our duty not to threaten the earth's viability as a habitat for living things conflicts with our duty to obey the law, we ought first to satisfy the former. Radical environmentalism ecotage sabotage Earth First Ed Abbey
2	Prefigurative politics as applied to the climate crisis : A game theoretical assessment Carlshamre, Nathan January 2023 (has links) In this paper, I make use of the game-theoretical concepts of cartel theory and coordination theory via salience and Schelling points in order to assess the viability of prefigurative politics when used by group actors to address the particular case of the climate crisis. I show that prefigurative politics as a strategy faces significant systematic disadvantages when used by social movements attempting to address climate change as compared to when it is used by social movements focused on other causes. These disadvantages are based on two factors: lack of motivation and a difficulty of coordination. In order to illustrate this point, I compare the situation for contemporary climate movements to a case example of the Montgomery bus boycott of 1957, showing how cartel theory worked in the favour of the civil rights movement, and how salience was crucial for the fast mobilisation of the African American community of Montgomery. Prefigurative politics game theory prefiguration climate activism activism environmental activism tragedy of the commons anarchism left-libertarianism political theory Montgomery bus boycott constructive program ecotage non-violence violence cartel theory salience Political Science Statsvetenskap

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When Resistance is Not Enough: The Role of Ecotage in Radical Environmentalism

Prefigurative politics as applied to the climate crisis : A game theoretical assessment