Eco-Terrorism Between the Hypothesis and the Reality

Abstract

The characteristics of the contemporary conflicts are such that endanger the environment and its basic qualities.

The limited factors of the military force application at the end of the 20th century have made its results relative as means of the political goal achivement, bur not the psyhological effect of the selective application of the contemporary forms of terrorism are its presence, massive self-sacrifice amd unpredictability of cause and effect, time and space apperance of the destructive thing which does not lesson the attribute how well it is organized.

The characteristics of the contemporary terrorism divide evan the eco-terrorism, which is expressed in dferent ways and in different situations by the direct contamination and destruction of environment and natural resources (ecocide), the intimidation by NBH, the poisoning by poisoning gas and chemicals, water and food contamination, the incitement of the international ecological terror like "export of the dirty technology". No matter how much it looks that is happening by chance, this is want makes it an immanent feature of the contemporary conflict. The work presents the structural explanation of the conflict state and opposing interests in the contemporary world with the possibility of the present and new types od eco-terrorism.