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> (This has probably been explored in a Tom Clancy/Michael Crichton -type novel...) This is the plot of Rainbow Six, where a scheming group of evil environment
by munin 9y ago
> (This has probably been explored in a Tom Clancy/Michael Crichton -type novel...)
This is the plot of Rainbow Six, where a scheming group of evil environmentalists plan to unleash a weaponized strain of Ebola on the world to wipe out 99.99% of the global population so that the ecosystems will survive. Other comically evil things the environmentalists do include experimenting on homeless people abducted from the street and provoking/funding acts of terror worldwide as part of some hazy cover up for their activities.
It all ends in tears for the environmentalists though, at the hands of an all-American red-blooded special forces hero and his multi-national above-the-law and above-Top-Secret counter-terrorism task force.
Not really Clancy's finest hour, IMO, but a good look into the conservative id.
- dajohnson89 9y agoand it was a damn good first person shooter.
- sliverstorm 9y agoWhat a world we live in, where environmentalists are the scariest ghost around for the all-American red-blooded special forces hero to go chasing.
- Lazare 9y ago> What a world we live in Well that's the thing: The book comes from a different world. More precisely, it came from 1998, when the Soviet Union (Tom Clancy's traditional antagonist of choice) was long gone, but Islamic terror wasn't yet the obvious replacement. He wrote a string of books with odd antagonists (eg, Japanese nationalists) during the period.
- Wohlf 9y agoThere were even some acts of environmental terrorism at the time, so it was probably an idea ripped from the headlines.
- pjc50 9y agoOf course, in reality we had French special forces committing acts of terrorism against environmentalists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior
- lightbyte 9y ago>The sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, codenamed Opération Satanic Who names their covert terrorism op that? That's just asking for it.
- eadmund 9y agoOn the other side of the aisle, Justice League opens with its evil terrorists being … suit-wearing English reactionaries.
- kiddico 9y agoThat was a wonderful overview. Oddly enough I've never wanted to read something more than right now. That sounds absurd in just the right kind of way.