There is a clear case to be made for the connection between ecology and anarchism. [1] Many philosophers, academics, and radicals have elaborated this over the past two centuries [2]. But reviewing the history of this theoretical relationship is not the goal here. The movement surrounding anarchism in the past 200 years has certainly included its fair share of theory, yet what has rooted anarchist ideas so deeply in human society is the prioritization of action. It is this action-based relationship between the ecological movement and anarchism that we explore.

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