Thomas Zeitzoff — No Option But Sabotage: The Radical Environmental Movement and the Climate Crisis -with JJ Green

An authoritative history of the radical environmental movement in the United States, No Option But Sabotage explores how far activists are willing to go to defend the planet in the face of repression and the escalating climate crisis.After 9/11, the radical environmental movement was considered the number one domestic terror threat by the U.S. government. But by the end of the decade the movement had largely gone silent. What happened? And given the threat from climate, why haven't more radical tactics re-emerged?In No Option But Sabotage, Thomas Zeitzoff traces the origins, rise, fall, and potential rise again of the movement. Using in-depth interviews with past and current activists, as well as experts, Zeitzoff covers the main factions and actors. These include: Earth First! and its early advocacy for "monkeywrenching;" the "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski and his years-long anti-technology bombing campaign; the connections between animal liberation, punk, and the emergence of the Earth Liberation Front and its arson campaign; and more recent climate activists and their use of disruptive tactics. Along with providing a comprehensive overview of the movement and its various sub-movements that emerged over time, Zeitzoff also asks the bigger question-given the scope and threat from climate change why haven't activists escalated their tactics? Property destruction, sabotage, and even arson were once regular features of the movement in the 1990s and early 2000s--will activists use them again, or will they stick to non-violence? Will the threat of increasing state repression scare activists, or radicalize them?Not just a history of a major extremist movement, this book tells the story of radical environmentalism and highlights how activists are confronting the dual threats of climate change and repression, and asking themselves how far they are willing to go to protect the planet.Thomas Zeitzoff is a professor in the School of Public Affairs at American University. His research focuses on political violence, social media, and political psychology. His work has appeared in Science Advances, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, International Organization, Political Psychology, among other journals and he is the author of Nasty Politics: The Logic of Insults, Threats, and Incitement.Zeitzoff is in conversation with JJ Green, who is the National Security Correspondent at WTOP radio in Washington, DC. He reports daily on international security, intelligence, foreign policy, terrorism, and cyber developments and provides regular on-air analysis on both radio and TV. He is also the author of The Noise War: How to Fight Disinformation and Find the Truth When Everything Is Lying to You. He hosts Global with JJ Green on YouTube, and the weekly WTOP podcast Target USA, which examines the threats facing the US. He has been embedded with the US military three times in war zones. He’s travelled extensively across Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia, South America, and Africa. He’s the recipient of more than 50 local, regional, and national journalism awards, including the 2017 Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation Award for Distinguished Reporting on National Defense for his series “Anatomy of a Russian Attack.” He also received a National Edward R. Murrow Award in 2009 for his reporting aboard a Los Angeles-class nuclear-powered submarine. In 2023, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Champlain College in Vermont for his international security reporting, writing, and analysis.PURCHASE: https://politics-prose.com/product/no-option-sabotage-radical-environmental-movement-and-climate-crisis-thomas-zeitzoff?v=2099995&ic_referral=2Z4mPfXpbJnTCnL4gchdYXtF4YqOvCu2ndeYBBmbF-gwM-lZPxVqYlvBaGwtEW8Ku4pDCFh_n8twdJ8Hb-X4LwFGhY6p-JKQkHQAZ76M_XWd1LJ2Q41UWQWmdmVFbeMPuiCWmqM