I’m really quite the amateur at this.
And I’m not much of a joiner either. But please tell me what steps I can take to become an eco-fascist?
I’m fairly energetic, comrades, so give me the Straight Dope to give me the best chance of becoming a rrreally good one.
Since the OP is seeking professional advice, this is better suited for IMHO than GQ.
Colibri
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Actually, fascism tends not to be a particularly eco-friendly ideology (what with all the militarism and corporatism and all like that there), and thus is probably not the best choice for someone interested in environmentally-oriented extremism.
If what you’re really after is just becoming an eco-fanatic or eco-radical in general, there are many earnest and annoying organizations you can seek out, the best-known of which include PETA, Earth First!, and Earth Liberation Front. You can also join more mainstream conservation organizations such as the Nature Conservancy or the World Wide Fund for Nature, and position yourself as an extremist radical fringe element within them.
read The Monkey Wrench Gang
Yeah, but let’s say we’re going to refer to each other as ‘comrade’, and yet be committed eco-fascists.
I need help hammering out the technical details.
My father was a petty ecoterrorist. When I was young he would go at night to local construction projects and change markings on trees so a few extra ones would be left standing.
Read Zodiac by Neal Stephenson.
Well, this is the dresscode.
First, one must train the Panda Bears to goose-step…
we LOVE that book in this house!
wouldn’t it make a great book [if hollywood didnt screw with it]
I think you’re mixing up your totalitarian ideologies here. “Comrade” was a typical communist form of address, not fascist.
What do you think an “eco-fascist” is, anyway? We could give you more help about the details if we had some idea of what you had in mind.
Nitpick: I’d call that eco-sabotage or eco-vandalism rather than eco-terrorism, since it sounds as though he was a long way from actually trying to harm anybody in order to intimidate people into making policy concessions.
Go off on a loud swearing diatribe whenever someone mentions nuclear energy as being a good solution to many environmental problems. If they press you into debate, simply yell "HELLO! Three Mile Island (known to you from now on as TMI which incidentally is the same abbreviation as Too Much Info)! Chernobyl! Carry around some pictures of random deformed Eastern Bloc looking kids with you at all times for show and tell.
You need to change your diet as well. Becoming a regular vegetarian just doesn’t cut it any more. The bar has been raised considerably. Becoming a regular vegan is safe but to get street cred, you really need to become a “raw vegan” that only eats plants and fungi that can be hand gathered from a 10 mile radius of where you live.
I’d suggest following in the footsteps of these guys
Can geese panda-step?
Join Green Peace +/or the Sierra Club. I’m sure you’ll find some others there who can help you out.
NEIN!
Oredigger: This part of your quote is particularly interesting:
The dude got sentenced to *jail *for oil pollution.
To answer Kimstu, I’m thinking of the kind of hard-nosed eco-fascist who ensures that people guilty of oil pollution go to jail for it. They never cry, they are not only vegan but also straight-edge, and if becoming Global Autocrat is what it takes to enforce their will then by golly, that’s what they’ll do. Reluctant to engage in violence but extremely dangerous. They put in more hours than Che Guevara, comrade.