Grief from the Destruction of Nature

Abstract

Radical environmental activism is what happens when alternative, conventional strategies have failed. While this inquiry did not formally evaluate the ratio of successful to unsuccessful protest actions, forest activists had certainly lost more actions than they had won. This means that the research participants had experienced the clearfelling of many contested coupes and tree-sits. In the case of the Sea Shepherd participants, the majority had returned from a successful campaign and had not witnessed whale killings. They were lucky because most previous campaigns have involved whales being slaughtered.