ABSTRACT
In recent times, conducting environmental research has become an increasingly dangerous activity for the researcher. Revealing the biophysical and social reality of our economic systems threatens a range of vested interest groups who rely upon resource exploitation, pollution and environmental destruction as necessary business practices. The capital-accumulating growth imperative dominates modern society – East, West, South and North – and anything that is deemed a threat to the beneficiaries of this system is subject to their attack, by whatever means necessary.
