1. Large mainstream environmental groups began to compromise too much with regulatory agencies and bureaus, starting with the Glen Canyon Dam project. This began a move away from the mainstream that culminated in the rise of more militant groups such as Earth First! Glen Canyon represented what was fundamentally wrong with the country's conservation policies: arrogant government officials motivated by an almost religious zeal to industrialize the natural world, and a distrustful bureaucratic leadership in major environmental organizations that more or less willingly collaborated in this process. groups and governments supported the premise that humanity should control and manage the natural world. Radicals believed that our technological culture with its intrusions into the natural world must be curtailed, perhaps even nullified, to preserve the ecology of this planet and our role in it. vital. It marked the shift from a rearguard (mainstream) strategy to protect wilderness to an affirmative attempt to restore the artifacts of civilization, to restore the world to the point where natural processes such as the flow of rivers could continue. The issue, now perceived by many as unrelated to people's deep concern about environmental degradation, has become systemic. Activists use approaches such as industrial vandalism or "ecotage" to foster dramatic results. Some other methods used are tree felling, tree felling, road blockades, demonstrations, nailing trees, sinking ships, breaking dams, and outright terrorist-type sabotage ( bombing of power plants, bridges, power lines, etc.). There may be some complementary results of the efforts of both mainstream and radical groups. Large environmental organizations, while denouncing the radicals' confrontational activities, were then able to use their ample finances to take the campaign to Congress or the courts with the impetus of public support generated by the radicals. 2. With Soule's quote including "Vertebrate evolution may be at an end" means that the civilization complex has lost its point of reference by overwhelming the natural processes it has always used to define itself. The otherness of nature is disappearing in the artificial world of technology. As the environmental crisis deepens, we can expect greater attention... from the citizens of civilization.' Industrial man and industrial society may be the most deleterious and unsustainable economic system the world has ever seen, as it constantly corrodes the ecological systems on which it depends. We are starting to realize how expensive a system is as well as health, and here comes the cleanup costs resulting from years of environmental abuse. Not surprisingly, those who have benefited most from the extravagant growth of the industrial economy have done their best to shift the burden onto others: the poor, the unwary, or the next generation. Industrialism is perhaps the largest pyramid scheme in history. The role that industrial man must assume for the ultimate survival of the natural world is to act to slow and reverse the growth of the human population. There are ecological limits to the number of people who can live with dignity on this planet; to quibble about whether that limit has already been crossed is to invite a game of ecological brinkmanship that need not be played. And if the human population has not exceeded carrying capacity, the arguments of humanist critics leave it out as a whole..