Fires in the Night: An explosive new investigation into the fight to save our planet | Matthew Wolfe
The true story of a secret group of radicals who launched a clandestine battle to save the planet, and what their legacy illuminates about the future of our climate crisis.
In the 1996 the Earth Liberation Front first came into the public eye and over the next decade, they carried out the most audacious politically motivated arsons in US history. Targeting car dealerships, lumber companies and a $20 million ski resort, they wanted to send a message: if the government wouldn’t halt the destruction of the natural world, they would. Despite causing no deaths, the ELF was branded the nation’s foremost domestic terrorism threat and became the target of one of the FBI’s largest ever investigations.
Fires in the Night is the definitive story of the ELF’s rise and unravelling. Drawing on years of original reporting and interviews, journalist Matthew Wolfe offers a thrilling account of a moment when the actions of radical environmentalists challenged mainstream complacency.
As the climate crisis continues to accelerate, Wolfe asks the most pressing question of our time: facing the end of the world as we know it, exactly what kind of resistance is justified?
