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英语高级视听说下册-unit-10 Burning Rage This story originally aired on Nov. 13, 2005.When they first emerged in the mid-1990s, the environmental extremists calling themselves the Earth Liberation Front announced they were the burning rage of a dying planet.?Ever since, the ELF, along with its sister group, the Animal Liberation Front, has been burning everything from SUV dealerships to research labs to housing developments.In the last decade, these so-called Eco-terrorists have been responsible for more than $100 million in damages. And their tactics are beginning to escalate.Some splinter groups have set off homemade bombs and threatened to kill firefighters – was injured. By the time the fire burned itself out the next morning, all that remained was a 12-foot-long banner that read: If you build it, we will burn it. Also on the banner was the acronym: E-L-F.?When Carle saw the banner, he says he knew he had a problem.A problem, because he knew what ELF stood for: the Earth Liberation Front, the most radical fringe of the environmental movement. Its the same group that set nine simultaneous fires across the Vail Mountain ski resort in 1998 to protest its expansion, causing $12 million in damage.?And it is the same group that has left SUV dealerships across America looking like scenes from Iraqs Sunni triangle, their way of protesting the gas-guzzling habits of American car buyers.The ELF is a spin-off of another group called the ALF, or Animal Liberation Front, whose masked members have been known to videotape themselves breaking into research labs, where they destroy years of painstaking work and free captive animals. In recent years, theyve capped off their visits by burning down the buildings. Still, they insist they are non-violent.For every arson that Ive carried out, theres probably three or four that were not carried out for that fear of injuring somebody, says Rod Coronado, a former ALF leader, who is widely-credited with introducing arson to the