Éco-warrior

“ éco-warrior ” is the term which themselves employ to indicate the ecologists activists who imply themselves directly in actions for the safeguarding of the Environnement. The term also indicates the movement which gathers them.

The movement éco-warrior, relatively nonformal, is especially developed in the Saxon countries (under the eco-warrior term). Most of the time the éco-warriors have recourse to pacifist actions, but always do not exclude the use of violence.

Their standard action is the occupation of zones dedicated to a rather contestable building site (extension of the tracks of a Aéroport, news Autoroute…) on a remarkable site, they thus will make in kind prevent work until their abandonment. Not to be driven out or dislodged, they can for example dig narrow tunnels in which they will hide, thus preventing any evacuation of the camping and thus all work.

Being given the very disputed character of work, they generally have an active support of the residents which bring to them assistance (food, water…).

Another typical case is the occupation of trees: to prevent the demolition of forest zones, certain activists went to occupy permanently of the summary platforms installed in the trees. Certain occupations lasted more than two years.

But the pallet of action is very broad: to plant trees in the urban areas, to occupy the seat of an industry, to attack it in justice, to make legal remedy as soon as it seems right to stop an human activity which has direct detrimental effects on the environment.

These movements for the moment are developed little in the Latin countries, but the socio-economic models and Politique S approaching more and more the Anglo-Saxon model , it is probable that such movements develop to with it in the future.

Historical reference

It is usually refers to the éco-warriors as a “Western” movement but it is interesting to compare it with the Mouvement Chipko in India which fought the demolition of forests.

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