These groups are very well-financed, backed, as they are, by corporations and other capitalist interests. What they lack in public support, they make up for in resources and powerful connections. Going over the list, you can see the copious use of buzzwords by the anti-environmental movement, as they strive to create the appearance of a broad mandate and public support. When a company adopts marketing strategies whereby the company appears to be adopting a more environmentally-conscious stance, when really it's simply doing its usual routine. We're talking out of both sides of our mouth because we want to sell our bags.
Activists find themselves the victims of assaults, sabotage, death threats, and worse.
The actual perpetrators were never apprehended. No one was arrested in this crime. The Center for Investigative Reporting noted 104 violent attacks on environmentalists from January 1989 to January 1993, averaging one every two weeks. Through official government channels, whether Congress or the courts or the Executive Branch, government has been shown to regularly side with Big Business where environmental issues are concerned. The conservative 104th Congress recently showed this in its efforts to weaken endangered species laws, open up wetlands and parklands for economic exploitation, and lessening clean air, food, and water legislation.