Eco-terrorism in fiction

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The seminal work of fiction featuring

extreme weather events—in a negative light.[3]

The Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989 precipitated an increase in eco-terrorism appearing in fiction. Examples include Paul Di Filippo's 1993 short story "Up the Lazy River" and Rebecca Ore's 1995 novel Gaia's Toys.[5] Besides film and literature, the theme has also appeared in video games such as Final Fantasy VII.[6] In more recent years, eco-terrorist antagonists such as those in the 2018 superhero films Aquaman and Avengers: Infinity War have been portrayed as being right about the issues but wrong about the solutions. The portrayal of eco-terrorist protagonists also shifted in the second half of the 2010s; whereas in earlier works such as the 2013 film Night Moves they would be motivated by idealism, later works such as the 2017 film First Reformed and the 2018 novel The Overstory have them motivated by the existential dread of perceiving human society as fundamentally unsustainable in relation to nature.[7]

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  4. ISBN 978-0-7914-7678-9
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  7. ^ "Climate Change Fiction Is Rethinking The Ecoterrorist". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
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