1. Large mainstream environmental groups have begun to compromise too much with regulatory agencies and offices, starting with the Glen Canyon Dam project. This began a break from the mainstream that resulted in the rise of more activist groups like Earth First! Glen Canyon represented what was fundamentally wrong with the country's conservation policies: arrogant officials motivated by a quasi-religious zeal to industrialize the natural world, and timid bureaucratic leadership within major environmental organizations that more or less willingly collaborated in this process. The groups and government assumed that humanity should control and manage the natural world. Radicals argued that our technological culture and its intrusions into the natural world must be reduced, perhaps even reversed, to preserve the ecology of this planet and our role in it. viable. This marked a shift from a rearguard strategy (mainstream) aimed at protecting wilderness to a positive attempt to roll back the artifacts of civilization, to restore the world to the point where natural processes such as flow rivers could continue. The mainstream environmental movement is now seen by many as disconnected from people's deep concerns about environmental degradation, it has become systematized. Activists use approaches such as industrial vandalism or “greenwashing” to achieve dramatic results. Other methods employed include tree tapping, tree felling, road blocking, protests, tree pinning, ship sinking, dam breaking and outright sabotage of terrorist type (bombing of power plants, bridges, power lines, etc.). There may be additional results. the efforts of dominant and radical groups. Large environmental organizations, while denouncing the radicals' confrontational activities, were then able to use their vast finances to take the campaign to Congress or the courts, thanks to the momentum of public support generated by the radicals. 2. With Soule's quote, notably "Vertebrate evolution may be over", it means that the civilizational complex has lost its point of reference by overwriting the natural processes it has always used to define itself. The otherness of nature disappears in the artificial world of technology. As the environmental crisis worsens, we can expect an increased attitude toward the citizens of civilization. Industrial man and industrial society are perhaps the most deleterious and unsustainable economic system the world has ever known, as it constantly eats away at the ecological systems on which it depends. We are beginning to realize how costly this system is as health and cleanup bills from years of environmental abuse come due. It is not surprising that those who benefited most from the extravagant rise of the industrial economy did their best to shift the burden to others: the poor, the unwary, or the next generation. Industrialism is perhaps the largest pyramid scheme in history. The role that industrial man must play for the ultimate survival of the natural world is to take steps 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 ask whether this line has already been crossed is to invite an ecological game of tightrope that need not be played. And if the human population does not have..