Zizec's Eco-terror

          Zizec in his essay explores the various types and uses of fear in relation to environmental policy, or ecology. Early on a distinction is made between terror and fear. Zizec argues that the only true remedy for fear is to be terrorized, to assume the worst has already befallen us. He says we should not search for safety but that we should do the opposite. Next is a Nietzscheian "death of god" pronouncement in which Zizec argues that the thought of a great "other" is equally as horrific as the thought that we are alone in the universe.
          The following section focuses on scientific advances and globalization. Zizec argues that the fear perpetuated by religion, which has up until now been nullified by science, is no longer containable by the latter. Furthermore he states that the rapid advance of technology and access to the human genome will forever change nature, resulting in an absence of what we consider nature: "there is no nature." This he believes will form an alliance between religious groups and environmentalists, who both stand to gain from a concrete and objective definition of what is natural.
          Zizec ends with four steps to revolutionize this earth's ecology: Strict egalitarian justice; terror (ruthless punishment of all who violate the imposed protective measures, Inclusive of severe limitations on liberal "freedoms," technological control of prospective law-breakers); voluntarism; and trust in the people.