Although the subject of ecologists' studies is not the main point of the book, it is the basis of the political struggles the ecology movement found itself waging.
This included waging public-opinion campaigns, lobbying officials, fundraising, organizing the local community, civil disobedience, and initiating test cases to challenge racial discrimination in court.
Today, freedom probably means waging economic and military war across the globe to counter forces of totalitarianism, be they dictatorships or rogue regimes.