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They have unfortunately come to a realization that the only way for them to like see beauty or like feel love is to kind of be running with the wolves covered in the blood of tech millionaires which is kind of outrageous and like a meme in a way. You're listening to War College, a weekly podcast that brings you the stories from behind the front

lines.

Here are your hosts. eco extremism isn't a word you hear a lot these days and it's usually associated with groups like Greenpeace.

That might be changing.

In 2011, a biotechnology researcher was shot and killed in Mexico, a group called ITS took credit.

Quote, we have said it before, we act without any compassion in the feral defense of wild nature,

reads the group's manifesto.

Is the new generation of activists using violence to save the planet or to satisfy a darker, more

nihilistic urge?

Here to walk us through this today is Jake Hanrahan. Hanrahan is a journalist and

documentarian best known as the host of Popular Front, a podcast about the

niche and geeky details of Modern War. Jake, thank you so much for joining us.

Thanks, having me on again, mate.

So I wanted to talk about this topic because like a lot of people in quarantine,

I'm bored and I'm playing a lot of video games and I played the

Final Fantasy 7 remake which centers around the heroes as eco-terrorists and it occurred to me that this is a thing that I don't know a lot about and I think is important and is going to become increasingly important if global warming is even a tenth as horrifying as people say it is.

But kind of these environmental extremist movements, these people that want to

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