Scott Gardener wrote:But, the eco-terrorist werewolf wouldn't get very far as one single being against six billion people. The one most effective way such a being could make real headway at destroying humanity would be to bite and to spread purposefully lycanthropy to anyone and everyone one could, launching an epidemic. The lack of such an epidemic makes this story implausible, unless the werewolf who has the idea is a newcomer--in which case, there's a great story idea with a built-in sense of urgency--stop this rogue individual before he wipes out humanity. He'd be a villain with whom many could feel quite sympathetic, as human behavior indeed has been less than ideal over the last two millennia.
It's certainly a possibility, especially assuming the government takes an interest in concealing werewolves, thus anyone he bites would sooner or later be on a list of people scheduled to disappear. With that in mind, he might become an eco-protector not by infecting humans at large, but just those that directly pose a threat to his or any other habitat. If say, some crooked politican was bending over for the lumber industry, there would be an ensuing manhunt if he killed said politician. However, if all he did was bite him, he couldn't make the attack public for fear of ridicule, and if the CIA and up don't know about lycanthropy before then, they will know about it the first time he shapeshifts and be quick to cover it up for them.
Or even better: he conceals his lycanthropy the same way the original werewolf does: by escaping into the woodland area he was originally lobbying to have turned into lumber and suddenly develops the same dependency on the area as the werewolf (there's a similar event in the book I'm writing: a bunch of arms industry puppets lobby that werekin are monsters, so a group of werekin ambush the ones that come out in the open and infect them; two weeks later they're lobbying for werekin relief funds).