Green guerrillas and eco-terrorism
A recent post on Global Guerrillas outlines a potential development in eco-terrorism.
If activists adopt global guerrilla tactics, they could coerce a rapid move to clean energy alternatives. Small but effective attacks on major energy pipelines would quickly increase the costs of conventional energy such that clean power alternatives would become extremely attractive. This would be dictated by a direct economic comparison (costs) as well as indirect factors such as reliability of delivery. The "systems sabotage tax" would induce a tipping point in energy market equilibria towards green alternatives if it is extended over a long period (longer than one season) and is of a sufficient level. Moreover, green guerrilla activity would have few (if any) casualties and would probably be lost in the midst of the Islamic terror threat. Wonder if this is connected to the big NE blackout back August 14, 2003.