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How does Powers present our protagonists and their move into eco-terrorism?
As quickly as the protestors come together, their last, and failed, action shatters them apart forever. Olivia dies wondering what happened to Mimas’ (putative) assertions that everything will be okay, while the others wrestle with what to do now and if all their actions are in vain.
Powers does not condemn the protestors when they move into eco-terrorism, nor does he explicitly condone them. Mother N advocates nonviolence (in an example of tragic irony, she is violently killed) but at some point the characters decide they have no other option but to move forward with more aggressive actions....
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